The Pastor's Wife: The Story of a Minister and the Shocking Death That Divided a Family, by author and novelist Diane Fanning, is a true-crime account of Pastor Matthew Winkler, who was found fatally wounded from a shotgun blast to his back in 2006 at his Fourth Street Church of Christ parsonage in Selmer, Tennessee.

The book was the basis for a made-for-TV movie of the same title released by Lifetime Television on November 5, 2011.

[1] Mary Winkler, the pastor's wife, and their three daughters—aged 8, 6, and 1 at the time—were missing when Matthew's body was discovered, and a search for the family began.

[2] In April 2007, Winkler was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of her husband and sentenced to 210 days.

[4] Anita Porterfield with The Boerne Star wrote about the book, "With great skill, Fanning guides the reader through the bizarre destructive events of a dysfunctional family culminating with Mary Winkler’s murder trial.