{"title":"True Crime: Canadian True Crime","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"9781550228069","title":"Robber Baron","description":"\r\n\t\t\t\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobber Baronr\u003c\/i\u003e is an unauthorized biography of Conrad Black, who built the world’s third-largest media empire and is now facing criminal charges in Chicago for alleged fraud, money laundering, and racketeering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobber Baron\u003c\/i\u003e is based on rigorous research, hard-hitting interviews, original documents, and exclusive access to Black and his close family and friends, key associates, critics, and staunch enemies. Written by George Tombs, an award-winning journalist and historian, this book gives a fascinating insider’s look at a complex, driven man who is never out of the news for long.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book will include key testimony and evidence from Black’s Chicago trial, as well as insights into his defence, strategies, hopes . . . and fears. Love him or hate him, Black is a fighter who never says die. \u003ci\u003eRobber Baron\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a modern-day Citizen Kane, helping readers understand why Black does what he does.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\t\t","brand":"George Tombs (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42403889152160,"sku":"9781550228069","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5119c850-5e34-4e19-9c4a-7d422e974b09.jpg?v=1660076032"},{"product_id":"9781550027976","title":"Tilted","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt was Canada’s trial of the century - held in an American court. Media titan Conrad Black, by turns respected and reviled for decades in Canada and around the world, faced off with U.S. prosecutors on charges of criminal fraud stemming from his activities with Hollinger Inc.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe trial was \"tilted\" from the outset. Black attempted to tilt things in his favour by using his considerable wealth to mount a ferocious defence. But his efforts were countered by an American justice system that is heavily tilted in favour of the prosecution. And ironically, the same wealth that Black used to strengthen his defence was used against him as the prosecution repeatedly played the \"class card\" to turn jurors against him. Employing skilled analysis, expert insight, and touches of warmth and humour, Steve Skurka brings the trial to life in a way that readers have never experienced before. Tilted: The Trial of Conrad Black is the authoritative book on the most important trial of the decade. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steven Skurka (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42403891282080,"sku":"9781550027976","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_39e94fe6-3ecb-44c3-a945-890d644888d7.jpg?v=1739599070"},{"product_id":"9780735237032","title":"The Billionaire Murders","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*NOW A FOUR-PART CRAVE ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA top journalist crosses the yellow tape to investigate a shocking high-society crime.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBillionaires, philanthropists, socialites . . . victims. Barry and Honey Sherman appeared to lead charmed lives. But the world was shocked in late 2017 when their bodies were found in a bizarre tableau in their elegant Toronto home. First described as murder-suicide — belts looped around their necks, they were found seated beside their basement swimming pool — police later ruled it a staged, targeted double murder. Nothing about the case made sense to friends of the founder of one of the world’s largest generic pharmaceutical firms and his wife, a powerhouse in Canada’s charity world. Together, their wealth has been estimated at well over $4.7 billion.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e There was another side to the story. A strategic genius who built a large generic drug company — Apotex Inc. — Barry Sherman was a self-described workaholic, renowned risk-taker, and disruptor during his fifty-year career. Regarded as a generous friend by many, Sherman was also feared by others. He was criticized for stifling academic freedom and using the courts to win at all costs. Upset with building issues at his mansion, he sued and recouped millions from tradespeople. At the time of his death, Sherman had just won a decades-old legal case involving four cousins who wanted 20 percent of his fortune.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e investigative journalist Kevin Donovan chronicles the unsettling story from the beginning, interviewing family members, friends, and colleagues, and sheds new light on the Shermans’ lives and the disturbing double murder. Deeply researched and authoritative, \u003ci\u003eThe Billionaire Murders \u003c\/i\u003eis a compulsively readable tale of a strange and perplexing crime.","brand":"Kevin Donovan (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426849099936,"sku":"9780735237032","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_44f7f69c-b781-46e6-acff-103e42bbd4e7.jpg?v=1732088173"},{"product_id":"9780307359513","title":"A New Kind of Monster","description":"\u003cb\u003eRipped from the headlines, the horrific and astonishing true story of the double life of Russell Williams, who was at once a respected figure in the Canadian military and a ruthless sado-sexual serial criminal and murderer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the annals of psycho-killers, Colonel Russell Williams may well be unique. A decorated air force colonel, Williams was, for years, living a double life as a sado-sexual home invader, burglar, pedophile and, ultimately, murderer. A model officer and elite pilot, he was trusted with flying international dignitaries including Queen Elizabeth, as well as commanding Canada's most important military airbase. Yet his dark and violent secret life included breaking into 82 homes of girls and women; thefts of vast amounts of lingerie (which he dressed in); two bizarre sexual assaults that left an uncomprehending Ontario village on a knife's-edge; and eventually, two rape-murders. When police raided Williams's home - a home he shared with his wife, a respected professional in her own right who was apparently completely unaware of her husband's unconscionable double life - they found hundreds of pairs of women's underwear, meticulously organized and catalogued. In this book, veteran Globe and Mail crime reporter Tim Appleby chronicles a true story that could have been lifted from the darkest pages of pulp fiction, one that offers fascinating - and troubling - insights on human psychopathology.","brand":"Timothy Appleby","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426864140448,"sku":"9780307359513","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_652e583e-fae1-4975-b1c9-a70326fa237c.jpg?v=1732172518"},{"product_id":"9781771962681","title":"Dying for a Drink","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAS SEEN ON TV ONTARIO'S \u003cem\u003eTHE AGENDA WITH STEVE PAIKIN\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2019 ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown to history as “The Fighting Parson,” Reverend J.O.L. Spracklin broke into a notorious Windsor roadhouse one chilly November night in 1920 and shot and killed barkeep Beverly “Babe” Trumble. Easily acquitted by reason of self-defense, he never served a day of time. A provincial liquor license inspector already known for his brash tactics, Spracklin’s audacious tactics solidified across North America the Detroit-Windsor borderlands’ reputation as the new Wild West—an uncivilized outpost where whisky flowed freely, warrants were forged on the spot, and ministers toted guns to keep the peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the rest of Ontario, a dry province, Spracklin was the saviour they’d been waiting for, the answer to the lawlessness of the Border Cities—that is, until he shot a man at point blank range. In this exploration of the period, decorated Ontario historian Patrick Brode unpacks this infamous piece of Prohibition lore and asks: Why did Babe Trumble die? What led to a hotheaded reverend taking the law into his own hands, killing a man, and getting away with it? Full of fire-and-brimstone preachers, crooked politicians, wily rum runners, grandstanding lawyers, and innocents caught in the crossfire, \u003cem\u003eDying for a Drink\u003c\/em\u003e is a fascinating read that will captivate anyone interested in the real stories behind this fabled time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patrick Brode (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426864205984,"sku":"9781771962681","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e7c862f9-7c3c-4e70-b11b-9753c43ef50a.jpg?v=1660509159"},{"product_id":"9780735236615","title":"Murder in the Family","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDiplomat father. Murdered mother. Emotionally neglected children. An apparent cover-up. Family dinners will never be the same.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I think that my father murdered my mother.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat terrible belief spurs author Jeff Blackstock to investigate the circumstances of his mother Carol's death when he was a child. Carol Blackstock died at age 24 in 1959--poisoned by arsenic--but the cause of her death remained shrouded in mystery for decades. Jeff's father George Blackstock was a career diplomat in Canada's foreign service, posted to glamorous Buenos Aires with his wife Carol and their three children. A little more than a year after the family's arrival, the vivacious young mother, now emaciated and in terrible pain, was transferred to Montreal for treatment of a mysterious illness that proved fatal. In the following year, George Blackstock remarried, and a young woman named Ingrid became the feared stepmother to Jeff and his two siblings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarol's parents soon had suspicions about their son-in-law George but were unable to get justice for their daughter. Class privilege--George was the scion of a Toronto establishment family and Carol was from modest beginnings--and an aversion to scandal all figured in an apparent cover-up. But secrets have a way of eventually disrupting all families. A damning autopsy report about arsenic poisoning, found among their grandmother's effects, leads Jeff Blackstock and his sister to horrifying revelations about their father. Eventually, they confront him and accuse him of their mother's murder. But George offers only vague explanations that don't add up. George died a broken man, mostly abandoned by his adult children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA compelling story of a high-society murder, a heartbreaking tale of emotionally neglected children, and an inquiry into the power and privilege of the Anglo upper classes of the time, \u003ci\u003eMurder in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the shocking legacy of deeply buried secrets and betrayal in one's own family.","brand":"Jeff Blackstock (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426864271520,"sku":"9780735236615","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_66ad2195-0521-498e-aabc-53f0a88ae11e.jpg?v=1732090308"},{"product_id":"9780002156882","title":"Young Thugs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Bestseller and Finalist for the Donner Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoliticians and the media may claim that youth gangs are an American export, but the truth, says youth-gang expert Michael C. Chettleburgh, is that Canada has been cultivating its own homegrown gang culture for years. And gang culture isn’t relegated to Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver—it’s also in Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Halifax and Hobbema, Alberta. It includes not only poor black kids but privileged white youth, First N ations and Southeast Asian teens in large and small communities across Canada.\u003c\/p\u003eIn a powerful narrative driven by chilling real-life stories of gang members, victims, families and police—and anchored by rigorous research and thoughtful commentary—Chettleburgh creates a touchstone guide that acts as a wake-up call for Canadians.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Chettleburgh (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":42426864369824,"sku":"9780002156882","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/907916.jpg?v=1670173683"},{"product_id":"9781550132786","title":"Beyond Suspicion","description":"","brand":"Frank Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426864435360,"sku":"9781550132786","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/9781550132786-us-300.jpg?v=1673813230"},{"product_id":"9780553568547","title":"Invisible Darkness","description":"\u003cb\u003ePerfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eMaking a Murderer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe People v. O. J. Simpson, Invisible Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory—killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage: beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and they buy a fashionable dream house in the suburbs. But, bored with his straight, prestigious accounting job, Paul soon went freelance as an international smuggler. He also revealed his boredom with conventional sex—enough so that, one Christmas Eve, he persuaded his wife to drug her own sister and engage in a menage a trois, during which the sister died (a bungling coroner ruled her death accidental). The couple then upped the ante, kidnapping and imprisoning several high school girls for sexual marathons, which they videotaped before savagely murdering their captives. When the girls’ bodies were found, the police were stymied (although Paul had been accused of rape and given a DNA test that vanished for two years and only recently was linked to some fifty sexual-assault cases) until Karla tried to have her husband arrested for wife beating. During questioning, she confessed to the crimes and is now serving two concurrent twelve-year sentences for manslaughter in exchange for testifying against her husband, who was jailed for life.","brand":"Stephen Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback","offer_id":42426864468128,"sku":"9780553568547","price":4.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_de929460-4e49-4f54-b78b-7e142beb5feb.jpg?v=1732179381"},{"product_id":"9781459708297","title":"Everything Runs Like a Movie","description":"\u003cp\u003eA true story of a bank robber and a chilling car chase worthy of an Elmore Leonard novel or a Brian De Palma movie. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike many new arrivals to Canada, Hermann Beier came to this country with big dreams – visions of a wide-open country where hard work and entrepreneurial flair would make him rich. A charismatic handyman, martial arts teacher, and small business owner, he charmed women and earned the respect of men. He was loved in his community of Alliston, Ontario, and had a plan to make a million bucks. But when those dreams soured, Beier turned to crime to pay the bills. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Faced with bankruptcy in 1991, Beier hatched a plan to rob a string of banks in a single day. But it was all too much, too fast. After leading authorities from Guelph to Caledon on what was then the longest police chase in Canadian history, Beier was gunned down alongside a farmer’s fence, his body pierced by a hail of police bullets. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But he survived, and the end of his crime spree marked a new beginning. After spending almost a decade in various Ontario prisons, searching for a way to get his life back on track, Beier was finally paroled. He now lives a quiet life, dividing his time between Canada and Austria.\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"John Cooper (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426864566432,"sku":"9781459708297","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7c7ae944-296d-4219-8c83-8d14900a05f7.jpg?v=1739599123"},{"product_id":"9780679311539","title":"The Story of Jane Doe","description":"Startling, incisive and surprisingly funny, this is the true story of a woman who challenged stereotypes, the justice system, the police -- and won.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn an August night in 1986, Jane Doe became the fifth reported woman raped by a sexual serial predator dubbed the Balcony Rapist. Even though the police had full knowledge of the rapist’s modus operandi, they made a conscious decision not to issue a warning to women in her neighbourhood. Jane Doe quickly realized that women were being used by the police as bait. The rapist was captured as a result of a tip received after she and a group of women distributed 2,000 posters alerting the community. During the criminal proceedings, Jane Doe became the first raped woman in Ontario to secure her own legal representation -- allowing her to sit in on the hearings instead of out in the hall where victim-witnesses are usually cloistered. As a result, Jane heard details of the police investigation normally withheld from women in her position, which revealed a shocking degree of police negligence and gender discrimination. When the rapist was convicted, the comfort was cold. In 1987, Jane Doe sued the Metropolitan Police Force for negligence and charter violation. It took eleven long years before her civil case finally came to trial  -- the rest is history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis extraordinary book asks the diffcult question: Who benefits from rape? Popular ideas about rape still inform the way police and society behave around raped women. Despite decades of trying to rewrite the myths, the myths still exist, and they tell us that women lie about rape, that women enjoy it, that women file false rape reports to seek revenge and money. They tell us rape can be non-violent. They tell us that women can make good or bad rape victims or that women cannot be raped at all. They tell us nonsense -- and Jane Doe gives us a unique view on why.\u003cbr\u003eThis is a book about rape that is not about being a “victim.” It’s about a woman who wanted to ensure that she, the person most involved, directed her case and the course of her life. It’s about external elements colliding to provide a small window of redress for women who experience crimes of violence. Jane Doe was a test case -- the right woman in the wrong place at the right time -- and she made legal history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eThe Story of Jane Doe\u003c\/b\u003e, she asks us to challenge our own assumptions about rape and, in the process, surprises us with a story that is by turns sweet, tragic and fantastical. But most of all, this book celebrates what is most common in human nature -- our ability to overcome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Rape stories are not new stories. They are as old as war, as old as man. Many bookstores have sections devoted to them, and I read them. I read them “before,” too. I have found most rape stories to be either chronicles of fear and horror, victim tales that make me want to run screaming from the page (although I do not). Or they are dry, academic or legal treatises on why rape is bad, written in language I must work to understand. Both are valid. But both somehow limit me from reaching a broader understanding . . . No book has ever reflected my lived experience of the crime.”\u003c\/i\u003e -- Jane Doe","brand":"Jane Doe","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42426864599200,"sku":"9780679311539","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_cdad7bdd-7b07-4d65-bcd9-cc05f715ad81.jpg?v=1660509179"},{"product_id":"9781550132137","title":"Blood Brothers","description":"","brand":"Peter Edwards","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42426864664736,"sku":"9781550132137","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/1891861.jpg?v=1673812567"},{"product_id":"9781550025392","title":"Snatched!","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1934, fifty-three-year-old beer tycoon John Sackville Labatt was kidnapped from his Lake Huron summer home and held ransom for three days. His captors, a group of ex-rumrunners, desperate in the days following prohibition and the Great Depression, were hoping for a big payday. This bizarre true crime story traces the abduction through to the trials of the abductors. From a heavily populated hideout to a case of mistaken identity, follow the story of Labatt, the first person in Canada to be kidnapped for high ransom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan Goldenberg (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426864828576,"sku":"9781550025392","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_36c60e1e-6c89-49d3-a94a-8b14200e5d18.jpg?v=1739599146"},{"product_id":"9781443409230","title":"The Massey Murder","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Globe \u0026amp; Mail 100 Selection and \u003cstrong\u003elonglisted for the 2014 RBC Taylor Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA scandalous crime, a sensational trial, a surprise verdict—the true story of Carrie Davies, the maid who shot a Massey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn February 1915, a member of one of Canada’s wealthiest families was shot and killed on the front porch of his home in Toronto as he was returning from work. Carrie Davies, an 18-year-old domestic servant, quickly confessed. But who was the victim here? Charles “Bert” Massey, a scion of a famous family, or the frightened, perhaps mentally unstable Carrie, a penniless British immigrant? When the brilliant lawyer Hartley Dewart, QC, took on her case, his grudge against the powerful Masseys would fuel a dramatic trial that pitted the old order against the new, wealth and privilege against virtue and honest hard work. Set against a backdrop of the Great War in Europe and the changing faceof a nation, this sensational crime is brought to vivid life for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs in her previous bestselling book, \u003cem\u003eGold Diggers\u003c\/em\u003e—now in production as a \u003cem\u003eDiscovery Television\u003c\/em\u003e miniseries—multi-award-winning historian and biographer Charlotte Gray has created a captivating narrative rich in detail and brimming with larger-than-life personalities, as she shines alight on a central moment in our past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charlotte Gray (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42426865123488,"sku":"9781443409230","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":56917097152672,"sku":"9781443436427","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_08c5e15a-287d-4f39-808d-e4b2a4f942a6.jpg?v=1660509214"},{"product_id":"9781443449342","title":"Murdered Midas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e Top 100 Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this “engrossing must-read” by “Canada’s most accomplished popular historian” (\u003cem\u003eEllery Queen Mystery Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e), the glittering life and brutal murder of Sir Harry Oakes is newly investigated. \u003cem\u003eMurdered Midas\u003c\/em\u003e is “superior true-crime writing” (\u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold-mining tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest men in the British Empire, is murdered. The news of his death surges across the English-speaking world, from London, the Imperial centre, to the remote Canadian mining town of Kirkland Lake in the Northern Ontario bush. The murder becomes celebrated as the crime of the century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe layers of mystery deepen as the involvement of Count Alfred de Marigny, Oakes’s son-in-law, comes into question. Also suspicious are the odd machinations of the governor of the Bahamas, the former King Edward VIII. But despite a sensational trial, no murderer is convicted. Rumours about Oakes’s missing fortune are unrelenting, and fascination with the story has persisted for decades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning biographer and popular historian Charlotte Gray explores the life of the man behind the scandal—from his early, hardscrabble days during the massive mineral rush in Northern Ontario, to the fabulous fortune he reaped from his own gold mine, to his grandiose gestures of philanthropy. And Gray brings fresh eyes to the bungled investigation and shocking trial on the remote colonial island, proposing an overlooked suspect in this long cold case. \u003cem\u003eMurdered Midas\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of the man behind the newspaper headlines, a man both admired and reviled who, despite great wealth and public standing, never experienced justice.\u003c\/p\u003e         ","brand":"Charlotte Gray (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42426865189024,"sku":"9781443449342","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_6c51d35e-2a8a-4d33-9e92-534ca0162e53.jpg?v=1660509217"},{"product_id":"9780143013440","title":"Unnatural Causes","description":"","brand":"Max Haines (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42426865221792,"sku":"9780143013440","price":16.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/9780143013440-us-300.jpg?v=1670271546"},{"product_id":"9780919233362","title":"True Crime Stories","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForty-eight tales of murder and mayhem from the popular syndicated columnist and television personality.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat is the true story behind the Amityville Horror? What really happened to the high-flying D.B. Cooper? Why is \"the Tramp\" a highly appropriate sobriquet for the late Charlie Chaplin?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMax Haines investigates these cases and other crimes, cons and murders in the collection drawn from his well-known Crime Flashback column.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Max M Haines","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42426865254560,"sku":"9780919233362","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/51ZtEr5oewL._SX307_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1686701173"},{"product_id":"9780670870455","title":"Celebrity Murders And Other Nefarious Deeds","description":"","brand":"Max Haines (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42426865287328,"sku":"9780670870455","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/1948045_a8d02e5d-ad17-4b33-80f8-232c2aba6798.jpg?v=1673809412"},{"product_id":"9780451190741","title":"Celebrity Murders And Other Nefarious Deeds","description":"","brand":"Max Haines (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback","offer_id":42426865320096,"sku":"9780451190741","price":4.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/1948045.jpg?v=1673809402"},{"product_id":"9780451200471","title":"Murder Most Foul","description":"In this compendium of weird and wacky criminal cases, Canada’s most popular crime columnist brings us more than fifty murders from eleven countries around the world. \u003cp\u003eMeet Jerry Rosenberg, America’s foremost jailhouse lawyer. While in prison for the murder of two New York police officers, he earned a law degree. He now has a lively practice representing other prisoners. Meet Norman “Red” Ryan, convicted of armed bank robbery but who was so reformed after serving a portion of his sentence that they changed Canadian law so he could be released early—only to have his life come to an ironic end when he was gunned down in an armed robbery. Meet Herbert McAuliffe, whose counterfeiting scheme in Canadian coins came to an abrupt end with his realization that it was costing more to produce the coins than he was making in profits. Turning to bank robbery, his string of bad luck continued.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is another surefire collection from Canada’s master of true crime!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Max Haines (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback","offer_id":42426865352864,"sku":"9780451200471","price":6.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_f7e9ada0-d309-4a3e-a414-c0ff6cd25864.jpg?v=1660509219"},{"product_id":"9780143016106","title":"Unnatural Causes","description":"In this, his 19th book, Max Haines describes, in his inimitable style, sixty-five new cases of murder and mayhem from eight different countries: Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, New Zealand, the United States and Wales. \u003cp\u003eYou’ll meet the notorious George Joseph Smith, an Englishman known as “Brides in the Bath Smith” because of his penchant for murdering his wives in the bath. Read the details behind the recent case of Karla Faye Tucker, who killed two people with a pickaxe then became a born-again Christian while on death row, before she was executed in 1998.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Max Haines (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426865418400,"sku":"9780143016106","price":5.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_0e0ae120-7554-457f-8266-e0a627e2850c.jpg?v=1660509226"},{"product_id":"9780451164520","title":"True Crime Stories","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eForty-eight takes of murder and mayhem from the popular syndicated columnist and television personality. What is the true story behind the Amityville Horror? What really happened to the high-flying D.B. Cooper? Why is 'The Tramp' a highly appropriate sobriquet for the late Charlie Chaplin? Max Haines investigates these cases and other crimes, cons and murders in this collection drawn from his well-known Crime Flashback column.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Max Haines (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback","offer_id":42426865451168,"sku":"9780451164520","price":4.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/512740FJ29L._SY264_BO1_204_203_200_QL40_ML2.jpg?v=1686744380"},{"product_id":"9780140139297","title":"Unholy Orders","description":"","brand":"Michael Harris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Mass market (rack) paperback","offer_id":42426865549472,"sku":"9780140139297","price":4.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/6703084.jpg?v=1670271849"},{"product_id":"9781554887392","title":"Unsolved","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite advances in DNA testing, forensics, and the investigative skills used by police, hundreds of crimes remain unsolved across Canada. With every passing day trails grow colder and decades can pass before a new lead or witness comes forward  if one comes forward.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eUnsolved\u003c\/i\u003e, Robert J. Hoshowsky examines twelve crimes that continue to haunt us. Some cases are well-known, while others have virtually disappeared from the public eye. All of the cases remain open, and many are being re-examined by police using the latest tools and technology. Hoshowsky takes the reader through all aspects of the crimes and how police are trying to solve them using three-dimensional facial reconstructions, DNA testing, age-enhanced drawings, original crime scene photos, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNone of the individuals profiled in \u003ci\u003eUnsolved\u003c\/i\u003e deserved their fate, but their stories deserve to be told and their killers need to be brought to justice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert J. Hoshowsky (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426865582240,"sku":"9781554887392","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0f2d234a-69d5-4ce9-98b8-20f5c946596e.jpg?v=1739599099"},{"product_id":"9780864928764","title":"Black River Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1869, in the woods just outside of the bustling port city of Saint John, a group of teenaged berry pickers discovered several badly decomposed bodies. The authorities suspected foul play, but the identities of the victims were as mysterious as that of the perpetrator. From the twists and turns of a coroner's inquest, an unlikely suspect emerged to stand trial for murder: John Munroe, a renowned architect, well-heeled family man, and pillar of the community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMunroe was arguably the first in Canada's fledgling judicial system to actively defend himself. His  lawyer's strategy was as simple as it was revolutionary: Munroe's wealth, education, and exemplary character made him incapable of murder. The press and Saint John's elite vocally supported Munroe, sparking a debate about character and murder that continues to this day. In re-examining a precedent-setting historical crime with fresh eyes, Komar addresses questions that still echo through the halls of justice more than a century later: is everyone capable of murder, and should character be treated as evidence in homicide trials?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Debra Komar (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426865844384,"sku":"9780864928764","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e5a7666d-45d3-41d6-bcbd-519848b165f4.jpg?v=1660509375"},{"product_id":"9780802095428","title":"Walk Towards the Gallows","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn 5 July 1899 Hilda Blake, a 21-year-old maidservant in Brandon, Manitoba, who had come to Canada from England ten years earlier as an orphan immigrant, shot and killed her mistress. Two days after Christmas she was hanged, one of the few women in Canadian history to die for her crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlake unintentionally left a remarkable documentary record, ranging from Poorhouse records, courts dockets of custody and criminal cases in which she was the central figure, popular, journalistic, and professional assessments of her character, and a poem, 'My Downfall', that she penned in Brandon Gaol while awaiting execution. To explain why Hilda bought a gun and why she fired it, Kramer and Mitchell employee both historical and literary techniques. The result is a richly textured story of late Victorian social, cultural, and political life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis remarkable book - part mystery, part historical detective story - uncovers Hilda Blake's life, from her origins in Norfolk, England, to her tragic death. It also examines the lives of other principals in the story: successful Brandon businessman Robert Lane and his wife Mary, the murdered woman; Lane's business partner, Alexander McIlvride; Police Chief James Kircaldy; A.P. Stewart and his wife, Letitia Singer Stewart, the family for whom the 12-year-old orphaned Hilda first worked as a domestic servant; Rev. C.C. McLaurin, the Baptist minister who knew Hilda and counselled the condemned woman in her final days; social purity activist Dr Amelia Yeomans, who petitioned for clemency; Governor-General Minto, who urged the Laurier government to stay the execution, even Clifford Sifton, the MP from Brandon, federal minister of Immigration, and the most powerful western Liberal in the Laurier cabinet, for whom the case was a potential minefield.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the authors write, 'We tell a \u003ci\u003estory\u003c\/i\u003e because only a story can expose the real workings of a culture, and only a story can express our protest against time.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Mitchell (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426865909920,"sku":"9780802095428","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_5409b033-1f76-40ac-81fb-d700ea5d15d5.jpg?v=1660509397"},{"product_id":"9780140271850","title":"Redrum The Innocent Revised Edition","description":"","brand":"Kirk Makin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426865975456,"sku":"9780140271850","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/2170700.jpg?v=1671137454"},{"product_id":"9780773543461","title":"Counterfeit Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCounterfeit Crime,\u003c\/i\u003e economist, historian, and criminologist R.T. Naylor dissects the costs - economic, social, and political - of the seemingly never-ending wars on the grossly exaggerated menaces of Crime and Terror and how most things politicians do to combat them make matters worse - for the public and the public good. He explains how the post-World War II welfare state, with its commitment to building public infrastructure, maintaining social security, and providing accessible education, gave way to the modern executive state, with its focus on guaranteeing corporate welfare, dropping bombs on countries too weak to fight back, and manipulating the thoughts and actions of populations kept in line by the carrot of glitzy toys and the stick of ever-heavier legal sanctions. He dissects how the canons of free-market fundamentalism, backed by the cannons of state power, paved the road toward a soft form of totalitarianism, which march hand in hand with millennial Christianity and a military-security-industrial complex in search for new - mostly imaginary - enemies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCounterfeit Crime\u003c\/i\u003e is savage in its critique of the political and judicial status quo and outraged at an economy rife with corruption.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"R.T. Naylor (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Hardback Cloth","offer_id":42426866139296,"sku":"9780773543461","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_097a2b43-5911-4758-af1d-572b2cbdc82e.jpg?v=1660509430"},{"product_id":"9780470840603","title":"Bad Seeds","description":"This book tells the story of the Galloway Boys, who as young teens banded together in an urban-blighted area of Toronto's east end to sell drugs and run guns. They were led by Tyshan Riley, born into one of the toughest neighborhoods in Canada and raised by an often absent and erratic mother. He learned his lessons on the streets-how to sell drugs, how to steal--and used violence to get the money, sex and respect that he lived for.\u003cp\u003eThe area known as Galloway is home to 186 hectares of public housing. Crossing bridges is the only route into the area. It created a sense of isolation and for those who lived there a sense of mistrust of anyone from the outside. The area was a fertile ground for the growth of gangs--and as well for the drug dealers, prostitutes and crackheads who survived along a major east-west thoroughfare leading in and out of Toronto's downtown core. And while the Galloway Boys lay claim to their turf, farther to the north the Malvern Crew was laying claim to theirs. The war was inevitable and it would claim ten casualties, including the innocent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor three Galloway Boys - Tyshan Riley, Philip Atkins and Jason Wisdom - their days in the street were numbered. With the cold-blooded murder of Brenton Charlton and the near fatal shooting of his friend Leonard Bell at a busy Toronto intersection on March 3, 2004, the police investigation would lead to the arrest of Riley, Atkins and Wisdom, and with the testimony of a former Galloway Boys gang member, Roland Ellis, the three would be convicted of the first-degree murder of a man who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the testimony of Ellis and that of other witnesses, the wiretap evidence, Crown attorney and defense arguments, a portrait of a gang emerges, one that lives on our streets yet is hidden to our eyes. \u003ci\u003eBad Seeds\u003c\/i\u003e compels us to take our blinders off and face a reality of modern urban life that no one professes to care about very much. There is peril in willing blindness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Betsy Powell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426866204832,"sku":"9780470840603","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_df1c136d-c4da-43ac-86fd-0b2d83623868.jpg?v=1660509453"},{"product_id":"9780919897700","title":"Required Reading","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Pat Lowther Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 1999 and 2000, two Victoria teenagers were convicted of the murder of their schoolfellow, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk. Of the more than 500 drawings she prepared as courtroom artist for the trials, Heather Spears has selected some 50 to accompany the poems that record her experience of the process. As poet and as artist, Spears bears witness throughout her work to the plight of young people under stress.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heather Spears (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42426866237600,"sku":"9780919897700","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_775280de-e886-4e0b-bcb5-424050206f27.jpg?v=1660509487"},{"product_id":"9780679313885","title":"Enter the Babylon System","description":"\u0026lt;![CDATA[A docu-style investigation of our fascination with the gun, from the perspective of the hip-hop generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 2003 shooting death of Toronto community-centre worker Kempton Howard put the spotlight on hip hop’s fixation with guns. Media and police soon blamed rap music and its tales of gang life on bullet-ridden US streets for the rising use of firearms in Canadian crime. Were these songs artful accounts of a terrible truth, or a self-fulfilling prophecy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRodrigo Bascunan and Christian Pearce have interviewed many of the major players in the hip-hop world. As publishers of an award-winning magazine of urban culture, they’d watched rap music become a scapegoat for society’s much older and widely spread fascination with guns. What follows is their international adventure to deconstruct modern gun culture in all its manifestations. Bascunan and Pearce seek out hip-hop artists, illegal gun runners, firearms aficionados and manufacturers, museum curators, academics, politicians, video-game creators, activists, victims of gun violence and the family and friends left behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomewhere between \u003cb\u003eFast Food Nation\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eNo Logo\u003c\/b\u003e and a Michael Moore documentary, featuring sly sidebar material and original artwork, \u003cb\u003eEnter the Babylon System\u003c\/b\u003e is part outrageous journalistic pursuit and part passionate \u003ci\u003ecri de coeur\u003c\/i\u003e for sanity in the face of a society’s obsession.]]\u0026gt;","brand":"Rodrigo Bascunan","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42427202535584,"sku":"9780679313885","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_4e65dbb3-61ec-4bfd-969d-52fc228a9ae5.jpg?v=1660522226"},{"product_id":"9781551990514","title":"The Last Amigo","description":"\u0026lt;![CDATA[A briefcase full of cash is handed to the treasurer of a federal political party, but the donation is never registered on the party`s books. A public prosecutor investigates a case that implicates influential business figures, but he dies in a car accident before charges are laid. At the height of the Gulf War, a sale of sophisticated tanks to Saudi Arabia yields millions in illegal commissions - almost half the value of the deal - for a network of middlemen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe figure who connects these seemingly unrelated episodes is Karlheinz Schreiber, a name much in the headlines since his arrest in Toronto in August 1999. Charged in Germany with bribery and tax evasion, he is at the centre of the most sensational political crisis to erupt in that country since World War II, a scandal that has brought down the country`s revered former chancellor Helmut Kohl. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut it is in Canada that Schreiber`s fortune was made. A tireless dealmaker who cultivated the powerful, he made connections in Ottawa that served the interests of his European patrons and clients. One was Airbus Industrie, a company desperate to break into the North American market by selling its planes to Air Canada. It was the secret commissions attached to the Air Canada sale, close to $20 million on a $1.8-billion contract, that became the subject of an RCMP investigation, the same investigation that prompted a lawsuit by former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Those commissions were ultimately shared with Schreiber`s European amigos and with his Canadian friends. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Amigo\u003c\/i\u003e is about the labyrinth of international political and business alliances that are at the heart of the scandals swirling around Karlheinz Schreiber: how corporations win government contracts, how money is successfully hidden in foreign banks and distributed through coded accounts, how an international political agenda is promoted and financed. It is a tale of media spin, covert influence, and undeniable personal gain. And it is a portrait of a consummate middleman who knew precisely how to exploit the ambitions and vulnerabilities of others.]]\u0026gt;","brand":"Stevie Cameron","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42427204796576,"sku":"9781551990514","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/1911823.jpg?v=1670778616"},{"product_id":"9781926780245","title":"Lessons from Remand","description":"In 2008, Mark Stobbe was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder. After the jail door clanged shut behind him, he carefully listened to his fellow inmates and watched the functioning of the two Remand Centres in which he was imprisoned. Using theories from sociology and psychology, he interprets these observations to create some fascinating insights into Canada's jail system. Now that he has been acquitted of the murder charge against him, he is free to share these findings. Lessons from Remand offers a rare perspective on the world behind the barred windows and provides a fascinating example of how academic theories can be applied in a practical way to make sense of an otherwise inexplicable situation.","brand":"Mark Stobbe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":42471159922848,"sku":"9781926780245","price":7.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b4fe3588-d7f9-4734-8aba-e65c01e3656a.jpg?v=1661280049"},{"product_id":"9780676975857","title":"On the Farm","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Stevie Cameron’s investigative tour de force about one of North America's most prolific serial killers—now widely regarded as a true crime classic. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVerteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. It was not until February 2002 that pig farmer Robert William Pickton would be arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion. The guilty verdict was upheld, and finally this unprecedented tale of true crime could be told.\u003cbr\u003eCovering the case of one of North America's most prolific serial killers gave Stevie Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years in two British Columbia courthouses, but also to information unknown to the police - and not in the transcripts of their interviews with Pickton - such as from Pickton's long-time best friend, Lisa Yelds, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. Cameron uncovers what was behind law enforcement's refusal to believe that a serial killer was at work.","brand":"Stevie Cameron (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42592766558368,"sku":"9780676975857","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0ea03e52-a96a-4705-b997-0a26dab568c9.jpg?v=1732148823"},{"product_id":"9781443442244","title":"The Whisky King","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“True-crime writing at its finest.” —Dean Jobb, author of \u003cem\u003eEmpire of Deception\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA rich and fascinating history of Canada’s first celebrity mobster, Rocco Perri—King of the Bootleggers—and the man who pursued him, Canada’s first undercover Mountie, for readers of Erik Larson, Dean Jobb and Charlotte Gray\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the dawn of the 20th century, two Italian men arrived in Canada amid waves of immigration. One, Rocco Perri, from southern Italy, rose from the life of a petty criminal on the streets of Toronto to running the most prominent bootlegging operation of the Prohibition era, taking over Hamilton and leading one of the country’s most influential crime syndicates. Perri was feared by his enemies and loved by the press, who featured him regularly in splashy front-page headlines. So great was his celebrity that, following the murder of his wife and business partner, Bessie Starkman, a crowd of 30,000 thronged the streets of Hamilton for her funeral.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerri’s businesses—which included alcohol, drugs, gambling and prostitution—kept him under constant police surveillance. He caught the interest of one man in particular, the other arrival from Italy, Frank Zaneth. Zaneth, originally from the Italian north, joined the RCMP and became its first undercover investigator—Operative No. 1. Zaneth’s work took him across the country, but he was dogged in his pursuit of Rocco Perri and worked for his arrest until the day Perri was last seen, in 1944, when he disappeared without a trace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith original research and masterful storytelling, Cole details the fascinating rise to power of a notorious Prohibition-era Canadian crime figure twinned with the life of the man who pursued him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trevor Cole (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":42713894912160,"sku":"9781443442244","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_97eb0bd8-025e-402c-8249-25ee999e1593.jpg?v=1666795788"},{"product_id":"9780307359506","title":"A New Kind of Monster","description":"\u003cb\u003eRipped from the headlines, the horrific and astonishing true story of the double life of Russell Williams, who was at once a respected figure in the Canadian military and a ruthless sado-sexual serial criminal and murderer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the annals of psycho-killers, Colonel Russell Williams may well be unique. A decorated air force colonel, Williams was, for years, living a double life as a sado-sexual home invader, burglar, pedophile and, ultimately, murderer. A model officer and elite pilot, he was trusted with flying international dignitaries including Queen Elizabeth, as well as commanding Canada's most important military airbase. Yet his dark and violent secret life included breaking into 82 homes of girls and women; thefts of vast amounts of lingerie (which he dressed in); two bizarre sexual assaults that left an uncomprehending Ontario village on a knife's-edge; and eventually, two rape-murders. When police raided Williams's home - a home he shared with his wife, a respected professional in her own right who was apparently completely unaware of her husband's unconscionable double life - they found hundreds of pairs of women's underwear, meticulously organized and catalogued. In this book, veteran Globe and Mail crime reporter Tim Appleby chronicles a true story that could have been lifted from the darkest pages of pulp fiction, one that offers fascinating - and troubling - insights on human psychopathology.","brand":"Timothy Appleby","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42731852759200,"sku":"9780307359506","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_8e0c17f4-093d-4133-a948-e5b3dea7d492.jpg?v=1667232197"},{"product_id":"9781896757155-1","title":"Fit to be Tied: Ontario's Murderous Past","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese are true, but unbelievable, stories about murder and hangings. Villains, bored lovers. thieves who goofed, and even the innocent suffered- each bizarre story ends badly, and draws a huge crowd.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Terry Boyle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52727068000416,"sku":"9781896757155","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback Signed Edition","offer_id":52727068295328,"sku":"9781896757155","price":20.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/B1m4iFYNp2S._SY522.jpg?v=1755705774"},{"product_id":"9781895714708-1","title":"The Lost Patrol: The Mounties' Yukon Tragedy","description":"\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description\" class=\"BookPageMetadataSection__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large TruncatedContent__text--expanded\" data-testid=\"contentContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"DetailsLayoutRightParagraph__widthConstrained\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003eOn December 21, 1910, a routine four-man Royal North West Mounted Police patrol led by Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald, set off from Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, by dogsled. Its Dawson City, Yukon Territory, 475 miles away. Something, however, went terribly wrong.\u003cbr\u003eUsing techniques similar to those of a skilled detective, author Dick North pieces the evidence together in an attempt to solve the mystery of the doomed journey that has gone down in Mountie annals as the THE LOST PATROL. Like the puzzling fate of Sir John Franklin's disastrous Northwest Passage expedition, the grisly outcome of the Lost Patrol has become part of Canadian folklore. Now, in this new, revised edition of a Canadian classic, Dick North weaves a spellbinding true tale worthy of Jack London himself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Dick North","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56768894927008,"sku":"9781895714708","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":56768896204960,"sku":"9781895714708","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/939979.jpg?v=1771871566"},{"product_id":"9780451169085","title":"True Crime Stories - Book III","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExplore a captivating collection of vintage and rare books for sale, each page echoing the whispers of bygone eras and offering a unique glimpse into literary treasures of the past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Max Haines (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42776451678368,"sku":"9780451169082","price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/image_f8dd3965-ada9-4809-8726-2476ee833fe0.jpg?v=1760982504"},{"product_id":"9780670064533","title":"Invisible Chains","description":"Just outside Toronto, a 14-year-old Canadian girl was auctioned on the internet for men to purchase by the hour. A young woman was taken by slave traders from an African war zone to Edmonton to earn greater profits by exploiting her in prostitution. A gang called Wolfpack recruited teenagers in Quebec and sold them for sex to high-profile men in the community. \u003cp\u003eThe global problem of human trafficking is only beginning to be recognized in Canada, even though it has been hidden in plain sight. In \u003ci\u003eInvisible Chains,\u003c\/i\u003e Benjamin Perrin, an award-winning law professor and policy expert, exposes cases of human trafficking, recording in-depth interviews with people on the front lines—police officers, social workers, and the victims themselves—and bringing to light government records released under access-to-information laws.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Benjamin Perrin","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42782337925280,"sku":"9780670064533","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback Trade size","offer_id":52199415251104,"sku":"9780143174790","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_56e0ff1c-6ac0-4762-ae5b-f7dc7d5d214c.jpg?v=1668719058"},{"product_id":"9780735275393","title":"The Wolfpack","description":"\u003cb\u003eJoined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards introduces a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival in Canada of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA  man  watching  the  Euro  Cup  on  a  restaurant  patio  is  shot  dead  on  a  busy  Sunday  afternoon  in  Toronto.  Another dies in a sidewalk ambush just outside a bus-tling college campus. Two men in a Vancouver hotel lobby  are  gunned  down  in  an  attack  that  sends  an  American soccer star scrambling for cover. In Mexico, a  Canadian  is  killed  at  a  Nuevo  Vallarta  coffee  shop,  his death barely registering amidst the terrifying death tolls of  President Calderón’s war on drugs and the cartels’ response; while a Montreal cop is beaten within an inch of  his life in a Playa del Carmen nightclub. An infamous heckler from an NBA Toronto Raptors game turns up dead in a bullet-riddled car in a midtown lane-way. Throughout the 2010s, these and other disparate acts of  violence entered the public awareness like iso-lated tragedies—but there was nothing isolated about them.\u003cbr\u003eIn this masterly investigation, veteran journalists Peter Edwards and Luis Nájera introduce readers to the common cause of  a near-decade of  chaos. Meet  the  Wolfpack,  millennial-aged gangsters from across the spectrum of  Canada’s underworld. Vying to fast-track their way into the criminal void left by the death of  Montreal godfather Vito Rizzuto, the Wolfpack sought advantage in a steady supply of cocaine from El Chapo Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel, among the deadliest and most far-reaching of criminal organizations. The juniors had just stepped into the big leagues.\u003cbr\u003eThis is the roiling landscape of  The Wolfpack, a brilliant examination of  a time of  criminal disruption and rapid adaptation, when one gang’s unchecked ambition unwittingly gave away the most hotly contested corner of  the Canadian underworld without a fight. Brazen criminal disruptors or entitled upstarts looking to get rich without paying their dues--whatever you think of them, you will never forget the Wolfpack.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Peter Edwards (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42884950392992,"sku":"9780735275393","price":16.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_b9b5bb2d-bb5d-436b-b61e-0ed8f65f67da.jpg?v=1672264955"},{"product_id":"9781897174746","title":"Who Killed Ty Conn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho Killed Ty Conn\u003c\/i\u003e is the brilliant investigative work of Linden MacIntyre and Theresa Burke, the current host and producer respectively of the CBC's \u003ci\u003ethe fifth estate\u003c\/i\u003e. It tells the tragic story of Ty Conn's life of crime and misfortune. Originally published by Viking Canada in 2000, the book has been updated and reissued with a new afterword from the author and a new foreword by author and criminologist Elliott Leyton. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA classic in the literature of true crime, \u003ci\u003eWho Killed Ty Conn\u003c\/i\u003e portrays a man coming to terms with a life of rejection - and the social system that failed to save him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Linden MacIntyre (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":43051514265760,"sku":"9781897174746","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_e07d9b6f-fbe1-470b-a062-b4be55d5510f.jpg?v=1674758830"},{"product_id":"9781459738225","title":"Drop Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003eShining a light on the dark history of hangings in Canada.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTake a journey through notable cases in Canada’s criminal justice history, featuring well-known and some less-well-known figures from the past. You'll meet Arthur Ellis, Canada’s most famous hangman, whose work outfit was a frock coat and striped trousers, often with a flower pinned to his lapel. And you will also encounter other memorable characters, including the man who was hanged twice and the gun-toting bootlegger who was the only woman every executed in Alberta.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDrop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates how trial, sentencing, and punishment operated in Canada’s first century, and examines the relevance of capital punishment today. Along the way, learn about the mathematics and physics behind hangings, as well as disturbing facts about bungled executions and wrongful convictions.","brand":"Lorna Poplak (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":43505259675808,"sku":"9781459738225","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8435b6b2-5bcf-4643-81c5-83633edd8b8a.jpg?v=1739599125"},{"product_id":"9781894864305","title":"Canadian Crimes and Capers","description":"Canadian Crimes and Capers is a rascal-laden romp through the annals of our nation's criminal history that demonstrates you'll find good and bad in any country.\r\n\r\nHere are some of the evil-doers you'll meet between the covers of this fascinating book:\r\nEdwin Alonzo Boyd, dashing and clever veteran of World War II, was also a bold bank robber who became notorious for his sensational escapes from the Don Jail.\r\nHilda Blake earned notoriety as the only Manitoba woman ever to die by the hangman's noose after the Brandon housemaid shot her mistress twice in the back.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Black Donnellys, a fierce family of Irish immigrants, feuded for 20 years with their neighbours in Lucan, Ontario, until a cold winter's night in 1880 when a bloody slaughter brought the fight to an end\r\n\r\n\r\nDr. John Schneeberger tried to escape conviction by cutting open his arm and inserting a tube of blood to confound police with bogus blood tests\r\n\r\n.\r\nMad Trapper Albert Johnson led the RCMP on a wild 50-day chase and shoot-out across the Yukon wilderness before the Mounties got their man\r\n\r\n.\r\nBilly Miner charmed the folks of Mission, BC, with his refined manners and cultivated speech, while at the same time pulling off Canada's first train robberies right under their noses\r\n\r\n. \r\nBank manager Nick Lysyk embezzled over $16 million from a Bank of Montreal branch in Edmonton. When he was caught the money had disappeared on big houses, fast women and even faster cars.\r\n\r\n\r\n...and there's yet more murder and mayhem to be found in Canadian Crimes and Capers.","brand":"Angela Murphy (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":43580661792928,"sku":"9781894864305","price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_dbf2cda1-26af-442d-ae62-44c6bedf6a03.jpg?v=1679178572"},{"product_id":"9780771030499","title":"The Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnbeknownst to most, there has always been an active circle of crime in Canada. From Al Capone, who dodged the \"heat\" during Prohobition in a network of tunnels under Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, to Montreal's Rizutto family, this updated edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Encyclopedia of Canadian Organized Crime\u003c\/i\u003e profiles the most notorious criminals this country has ever seen. Reporters Peter Edwards and Michel Auger pool their research and expertise to provide a compendium of the personalities and crimes that have kept Canadian law enforcement busy for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Edwards (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":43615161909408,"sku":"9780771030499","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/products\/BNCImageAPI_dbe9caa7-608c-49f5-bbc3-20b6185f1011.jpg?v=1679346255"},{"product_id":"9781847245519","title":"Chatham School Affair","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1926 a small town in Cape Cod is rocked by a series of events that would scandalise families and ruin the peace of the town forever. This thriller is told partly in flashback by the only living soul who knows the truth behind the murder and betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas H. Cook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43896058544288,"sku":"9781847245519","price":7.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/9781847245519.webp?v=1771693386"},{"product_id":"9780131305014","title":"Child Finder: Canada's #1 Tracker of Missing Children","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"792\"\u003eFrom the quiet streets of Ontario to the darkest corners of human disappearance, Colin Maxwell’s astonishing real-life career unfolds in \u003cem data-start=\"554\" data-end=\"568\"\u003eChild Finder\u003c\/em\u003e. Co-authored with Allan Gould, this gripping true-crime narrative takes you alongside Maxwell, a former armed forces officer turned skip-tracer, as he relentlessly tracks down some of Canada’s most elusive missing children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"794\" data-end=\"1165\"\u003eWhen one desperate mother had already spent years and hired multiple investigators to locate her abducted sons, she turned to Maxwell—and in just four weeks, he reunited her with her children. That case marked the beginning of an extraordinary string of successes, including tracking down 23 missing individuals in a single quarter and resolving cold cases in mere hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1167\" data-end=\"1541\"\u003eMore than a memoir, \u003cem data-start=\"1187\" data-end=\"1201\"\u003eChild Finder\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterclass in determination, compassion, and tireless investigative work. Alongside compelling case studies—some heart-wrenching, some triumphant—Maxwell and Gould offer thoughtful advice on prevention, safety, and resources for worried families. A powerful testament to one man’s dedication to restoring hope in the face of despair.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colin and Allan Gould Maxwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44393546088608,"sku":"9780131305014","price":11.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/3303176.jpg?v=1757287207"},{"product_id":"9781459730762","title":"Murder in the Family","description":"As the old saying goes, \"You can pick your friends, but not your relatives.\" In tranquil Northumberland County, Ontario, two families are well acquainted with the grim truth of that innocuous-sounding expression. They are the descendants of the first, and only, man executed in Northumberland's history. In a sordid true-crime tale of poison and philandering in 1850s Ontario, the respected Dr. William Henry King astonished the countryside with the sinister murder of his wife and with his subsequent attempts to evade justice. His capture and conviction were triumphs of vengeful relatives and early forensic science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nDan Buchanan, a blood relative of Dr. King's, grew up dogged by rumours of his ancestor’s bloody crime, but family shame and obfuscation left him with more questions as time wore on. Now, based on original documents, breathless reportage of the sensational King trial, and interviews held just after the notorious hanging, Buchanan reconstructs the full tale of crime and punishment, which shocked the province and has engendered speculation for over a century and a half.\r\n","brand":"Dan Buchanan (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45310808490144,"sku":"9781459730762","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3a64d212-dd86-4779-827b-09dd55d6b676.jpg?v=1739599143"},{"product_id":"9780920197424","title":"Justice Delayed: Nazi War Criminals in Canada","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA careful investigation into how alleged Nazi war criminals came to and were handled in Canada, \u003cem\u003eJustice Delayed\u003c\/em\u003e documents legal, political, and social responses to wartime crimes and postwar immigration. Combining investigative reporting with legal analysis and personal testimony, the book examines cases, government actions, and the long struggle for accountability in Canadian courts and public life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Matas, Susan Charendoff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45310819696800,"sku":"9780920197424","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/9780920197424.webp?v=1767560429"},{"product_id":"9780002178907","title":"Justice Denied : The Law Versus Donald Marshall","description":"","brand":"Rivendell Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45349840912544,"sku":"9780002178907","price":4.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/61964793.jpg?v=1700841683"}],"url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/collections\/canadian-true-crime-2.oembed?page=13","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}