Deadly Encounters: True Crime Stories of Alberta

Janet McCreadie, formerly the editor of the Pelham Herald, is currently
a freelance editor and writer.

The details of some of the cases in Deadly Encounters are more
interesting than others, but basically this book is deadly only in that
the stories chosen are deadly boring. The eight stories are presented in
a rather solid and dull manner and read like newspaper accounts of
police reports with only the facts. There is little color in the
recounting of the tales of missing bodies or the search for missing
links to make concrete murder cases. The book has been meticulously
researched but the stories do not seem interesting enough to light a
fire under serious crime buffs or even those from Alberta.