Poison: From Steeltown to the Punjab, The True Story of a Serial Killer
John Wiley & Sons
Publication date: March 2009
ISBN: 9780470158784
Digital Book format: PDF (Adobe DRM)
Canada's award-winning crime writer takes on a transatlantic serial killerOne of six book-length stories published in the Hamilton Spectator, Poison is a riveting piece of crime reporting that won a National Newspaper Award in 2004. Chronicling the life and crimes of serial murderer Sukhwinder Dhillon, who coolly dispatched two wives, two twin infants, and a friend just for insurance money, Poison details the trail that stretched from Canada to India, the work of the insurance claims investigator and the detectives who suspected wrong-doing, the forensics that sealed Dhillon's fate, and the legal twists and turns of the double murder trial that followed.