Shortlisted for the 2003 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award

In this, his 19th book, Max Haines describes, in his inimitable style, sixty-five new cases of murder and mayhem from eight different countries: Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, New Zealand, the United States and Wales.

You’ll meet the notorious George Joseph Smith, an Englishman known as “Brides in the Bath Smith” because of his penchant for murdering his wives in the bath. Read the details behind the recent case of Karla Faye Tucker, who killed two people with a pickaxe then became a born-again Christian while on death row, before she was executed in 1998.

"Nobody does murder like Max Haines. Author of 18 books and the popular Sunday Sun column, "Crime Flashback", Haines again delivers the goods..."

—Jane Van Der Voort, The Toronto Sun

"Haines is Canada's murder maven. He has been writing a syndicated column about that grisly topic for the past 30 years."

—Canadian Jewish News