Author: Stevie Cameron

This really couldn’t be considered holiday reading, but I spent most of my holidays with it. Surprisingly I could hardly put it down.

The details outlined in the book were not unfamiliar but taken in one sitting they were very disturbing. I started the book angry with the VPD because of their arrogance and inability to put aside political differences to act quickly; had they performed better there is a good chance they could have saved some of the women from the Downtown Eastside.

Because the murders took place in Port Coquitlam I was very familiar with all the places mentioned. I used to be so proud to live in Terry Fox’s hometown and then this gave us more notoriety than we ever wanted. I often saw the news vehicles and camera crews outside the courthouse as I went in to work at City Hall and knew that something was happening on the Pickton case.

I ended the book angry as well. I had forgotten that Willie Pickton had been found guilty of second-degree murder and not murder in the first degree. I also felt badly for the families of the missing women who never had a chance to have their cases go to court.

Not an easy read, but very well written.

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