Crime Story: The True Account of the Reporters, Cops, and Lawyers on the Trail of the Body-Parts Killer

Gemma Files is a Toronto-based freelance writer.

In 1988 the dismembered body parts of missing Chinese violinist Selina
Shen were discovered scattered across Ontario. The resulting murder
investigation led directly to the arrest of Selina’s ex-boyfriend,
former medical student Rui-Wen Pan, who was later convicted of having
murdered her in a fit of jealous rage and used his contacts in
Chinatown’s illegal immigrant underground to dispose of both the
corpse and the murder weapons. Nick Pron and Kevin Donovan, reporters
with the Toronto Star, covered the case. It is their input—and the
Hollywoodesque “opposites attract” relationship between veteran Pron
and rookie Donovan—that holds this book together.

Unfortunately for this reviewer, to describe Crime Story further would
give away too many of its plot points (thus diluting much of its charm).
Suffice it to say, the book fulfils its own agenda with style, and more
than proves itself a worthy addition to any reader’s Canadian
true-crime library.