True Crime
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Swindler
A.E. Dawson and The Canadian Problem by Leslie Y. Dawson
Insurance salesman. Farm hand. Bay Street elite. Writer. Grandfather. International criminal. A.E. Dawson was all these things--and more. Part family memoir, part criminal history and part adventure story, Swindler journeys from the bucolic...
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Thirty-Three Years
The Unfiltered Memoir of a Cop by Rob G. Rothwell
“That was it. That was the moment I knew I wanted to be a cop.” When Rob Rothwell is a naïve, directionless eighteen-year-old, he gets invited on a ride-along with a young cop…and the wild night that ensues sends him hurtling into a...
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The Missing Strad
The Story of the World's Greatest Violin Forgery by Gerald Gaul
Pay attention to that violin you used in high school. Look closely at the next violin you see at a garage sale. It might be worth millions of dollars. The greatest violin ever made is not in a museum. It might be in your violin case because it...
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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...
