Jon Wells: 9 books

From one of Canada’s most respected crime journalists come three shocking stories of true crime. A man rages in his home on April 4, 1999, breaking furniture and dishes. A woman wants to leave him. “You’re not going anywhere,” he tells her. Later that day, a police officer reports to...

"Bare light bulbs shone against walls painted with graffiti and dried blood, the rooms reeking of a sweet pungent odour like burnt plastic ...” So writes award-winning Hamilton Spectator journalist and author Jon Wells in one of four harrowing murder stories in Death’s Shadow. Wells...

The human story behind Canada's worst chemical fire "Why you leaving Stelco?" the friend asked the rookie firefighter. "'Cause it's hot and dirty and I don't like shifts." Enter the world of Hamilton's firefighters. Theirs is a smouldering, combustible workplace, and in the effort...

Award-winning journalist Jon Wells reveals the life story and charts the three-year international manhunt for one of the FBI's most wanted killers, James Charles Kopp Part detective story, part noir psychological thriller, Sniper tells the disturbing and compelling story of how anti-abortion...

A jogger running in a field near the perimeter of the African Lion Safari theme park in southern Ontario stumbles across a near-mummified skeleton. The remains are studied at a hospital morgue by a forensic pathologist, a forensic anthropologist and a forensic entomologist (known as "the bug lady")....

Veteran true crime writer Jon Wells leads us into a real-life crime investigation and the twisted mind of a murderous man A man rages in his home on April 4, 1999, breaking furniture and dishes. A woman wants to leave him. “You’re not going anywhere,” he tells her. Later that day, a police...

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...

Murder. Terrorism. Betrayal. Ian MacRae is a security specialist dedicated to saving lives in the most dangerous trouble spots in the world. He's always managed to leave the horrors of the job behind when he returns home. Until now. This time after a routine meeting in a run down Baghdad...

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