Book description
Canada's award-winning crime writer takes on a transatlantic serial killer
One 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.
Jon Wells has written seven multi-week,
book-length true stories for The Hamilton Spectator. His 2003 story
Poison won a National Newspaper Award, and Jon was named Journalist of
the Year in 2005 for Sniper, published by John Wiley & Sons in
2008. A graduate of the master's journalism program at Carleton
University in Ottawa, his research for the crime stories has take him
to India, Ireland, France, New York City, San Francisco, and western
Canada, as well as into prisons where he interviewed five convicted
killers. John has also conducted research in forensic labs and on
shooting ranges.
