Poison: From Steeltown to the Punjab, The True Story of a Serial Killer

Authors: Wells, Jon
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
BISAC/Subject: TRU002000
ISBN: 9781443427463, Related ISBNs: 1443427462, 9781443427463, 9781443427838
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 400,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:

A true Canadian story of terror, from Steeltown to India

Poison opens with a beautiful Indian-Canadian woman collapsing in front of her family and dying an agonizing death. Police are not called to the scene, and a renowned forensic pathologist is stumped over the cause of Parvesh Dhillon’s demise. But soon another gruesome death strikes the Indian community in Hamilton—this time a young man, the cause again a mystery. The beneficiary of the life insurance policy is a close friend named Sukhwinder Dhillon, a native of the Punjab in India and the same man who received payout for the death of his wife, Parvesh. A veteran insurance claims specialist calls Hamilton Police, who assign a charismatic homicide detective to the case, setting in motion an incredible international manhunt to catch a serial killer.

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