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 … 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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A very disturbing story of an evil, selfish man who was able to get what he wanted by cruelly poisoning people who’s deaths could benefit him financially. He learned to mislead insurance companies into paying off his claims and could have possibly gotten away with the crimes had it not been for the dedicated law enforcement agents and insurance fraud investigator who doggedly pursued him. They are the hero’s in this unsettling true story.
This book was too long. I enjoyed it and the story was true but it could have been condensed more. I wanted to hurry up and hear the end without all the narrative.
Interesting, based on a true story, look a mind set of East Indian people and the Country of India.
Very disturbing! This proves the importance of thinking and acting on behalf of the environment.
This is a most interesting & unbelievable true crime book!!! Hopefully I’ll have the opportunity to review another like this one, the title of which I cannot recall – about a guy who went around bopping women on the head, killing them! He, too, left me with my mouth hanging open in fear & amazement at how twisted a mind can be.
These crazy criminals really do blow the mind! And I do believe they’re crazy, but not legally, not that they don’t know right from wrong or can’t control their behavior – that idea goes out the window when one tries to cover up one’s crime(s)! This guy is diabolical! He had no shame in his game! Weeks after barreling through the book I continue to think about all aspects of it. I’ve been interested in gore, mysteries, true crime & the such since I was a girl, but clearly I’m not completely jaded even at 64 years! Some of these crooks can still blow my mind!
The author draws the reader in by spinning an otherworldly atmosphere that turns out to be truly other wordly to most of us. That world includes the victim’s family, friends, neighbors & others peripherally attached. The culture described does not seem to value life or think wrongdoers must be stopped by the justice system – especially if it is inconvenient to them in any way.
I’ve found great editorial faults, lack of logic, misspellings that change the meaning of the sentence & just plain abysmal writing with many true crime writers, but this author is the exception that proves the rule. After some of the others, I’d give him five stars just for that!
If I’m being oblique, it’s because I don’t want to reveal the facts that support these conclusions because that’s a large part of the story. I do hope that you read & enjoy it!
It began as a real page turner, and as I became more informed on the Indian “judicial system” I found it appalling to see that even in the 21st century Indian women have no legal rights and concealing murders is just the same old same old, so to speak. When I bought this book I was not aware that it would be from the Canadian Police outlook and their ridiculous rules of evidence. Ted Bundy should have bought a one way ticket to India, as crimes against women and children are always seen as the fault of the woman. I have a degree in Criminology, [Forensic psychology}and these Indian women reminded me of the way that Gary Ridgeway got so many kills. in America prostitutes are commonly referred to as the “less dead”. They put little effort towards investigating these women, as well as girls who are runaways, etc. Canada seems to almost be worse. If an Indian woman is not wanted by her husband, he just kills her. This book became intolerably long and progressively more boring. I generally enjoy reading about how different societies apply their laws, etc. This book, while reasonably interesting at first just became longer and less readable. However, this is the first book out of the many many that I have ordered on the bookbub site that was just not good.
Sorry, Rebecca Mullis
I am a big fan of true crime. This story is well told and puts the emphasis on the good guys who went above and beyond to put a bad person in prison. I liked the international settings, learning about India and the Canadian justice system.
Loved learning about the Indian culture and the writing was very good. Sad story.
Horrifying account of a real psychopath. This man was able to get away with so much because he belonged to a culture where women have few rights. The abuse of these women was very sickening to me.
Incredibly written true story that reads like a crime thriller. And is one.