True Crime
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A Viable Suspect
The Story of multiple murders and how a police force's reach proved too short for Canada's most notorious cold case. by Barry Ruhl
For more than 30 years, retired Ontario Provincial Police Sergeant Barry Ruhl has believed that a criminal with whom he had a violent encounter early in his career might be responsible for a string of unsolved murders of young women in Ontario,...
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A Question of Intent
Child Abuse and the Justice System by Helen Webster
A Question Of Intent is the true story of a little girl’s dismal life and the events that followed her tragic death. The author had access to the transcripts of the Preliminary Inquiry and the subsequent Trial and Appeals, and many related...
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Samsara
Between Two Worlds by Greg Murphy
Narrow escapes, near-death experiences and nail-biting anxiety follow international hash smuggler Jack O'Brian around the world during the seventies and eighties as he wends his way through the global drug subculture. What started out as a short...
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Good Luck Frenchy
A Tale of RCMP Deception & Survival Through Thailand's Deadliest Prison by Alain Olivier
Being mistaken for someone else, being falsely depicted as an important international heroin importer and trafficker, and being made an unwilling accessory to murder aren’t everyday occurrences. Surely this is not how the police behave to get...
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Surviving Corruption
by Dick Richards
This book tells of the experiences of a boy from age four, to an old man who went through life making decisions in his world of corruption. His choices, often fuelled by adrenaline did not affect his ability to fly under the radar of his...
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Chase for Cocaine’s High at All Time Low
(Battle against cocaine being won?) by Tommy Khoa Dang Lieu
Law enforcement around the world have put a strangle-hold on the cocaine industry. As a result, drastic changes in the potency and physical properties of the cocaine available in the eastern Canadian market have occurred over the past 25+ years....
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Christian Rape
by Whitney Mairwen Worthington
Rachel, against her better judgement joins a Christian commune. Immediately she finds the atmosphere intimidating and at times creepy. Hysterical rantings, vicious verbal attacks and intense lengthy house meetings are the order of the commune and...
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When Justice Fails
Now I Lay Me Down My Heart by Dr. Bonnie Clark Douglass
In 1997, George Henderson, who was staying in a homeless shelter, asked for the help of author, Dr. Bonnie Clark Douglass. George’s brother Paul Henderson, who was nicknamed “Poncho”, was only 17 when he went missing on Halloween night. Poncho's...
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A Boy Kept Silent
by Robert Lichti
Robert Lichti started life as a happy boy, living on the family farm. Tragedy struck May 21, 1962, the day his father was killed and nothing would be the same again. Robert was there when it happened, but no one thought to ask the six-year-old...
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Murder City
The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984 by Michael Arntfield
Like the mythic cities of Gotham or Gomorrah, London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground of depravity and villainy, the difference being that its monsters were all too real. In its coming to inherit the unwanted distinction...