The Third Rainbow Girl:

The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
(Hachette Books)

“Evocative and elegantly paced…[Eisenberg’s] unraveling of the brutal double murder is as skilled as her exploration of Pocahontas County, where the men, as much as the women, appear trapped in their predestined societal roles. . . In the end, The Third Rainbow Girl is not just a masterly examination of a brutal unsolved crimes, it’s also an unflinching interrogation of what it means to be female in a society marred by misogyny.”
—New York Times Book Review

”The Third Rainbow Girl is a haunting and hard-to-characterize book about restless women and the things that await them on the road . . . But there's a deeper dimension to The Third Rainbow Girl that gives it its contemplative power. Eisenberg intertwines her own raw story about coming-into-womanhood into the true crime narrative.”
—Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air

"If this is a book about a murder, it is also a book about the history of economic exploitation in Appalachia, the systemic biases of the criminal justice system, and the unreliability of memory."
–The Nation

“Thoroughly researched and reported…Offers a deep-dive into rural Appalachia, a region of the United States that is little understood, and it digs into questions of how deeply misogyny and bias can run inside a community. It is also an honest and endearing coming-of-age tale. . . The Third Rainbow Girl accomplishes what any good murder mystery should. It shines a spotlight on a nexus of people and a place. . . Uniquely thoughtful and introspective. The insights into human nature are the real gritty, good stuff you get from reading a masterful work of journalism like this one.”
—NPR.org