- 288 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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"). They discover that the victim was female, non-Caucasian. But who was she?
Award-winning journalist and author Jon Wells delivers a gripping, CSI-style story that was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for best crime non-fiction. Post-Mortem shows how Hamilton, Ontario, homicide investigator Paul Lahaie and his team chase a case in which the first challenge is finding the victim.
One of the forensic detectives hits upon the secret to cracking the identity of the dead woman: rehydrating the hardened skin on her fingertips and rolling it for prints. A match is found to Yvette Budram, a woman from Guyana who immigrated to Canada and married a man named Mohan Ramkissoon. The police soon discover the first of many twists in the case--Yvette's prints are in the Canadian Police Information Centre system because she has a criminal record for uttering death threats against her husband. Mohan denies doing anything wrong. A blood-spatter expert is brought in--but what can the police now prove in this cold case?
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 “Death in the Family”
- 2 Shallow Grave
- 3 Jane Doe
- 4 “Someone Is Going to Die”
- 5 Fingertip
- 6 The Bug Lady
- 7 Foul Play
- 8 Dead Identity
- 9 “Tell Me Who You Are”
- 10 Deception Theory
- 11 Worst Case Scenario
- 12 One-Way Ticket
- 13 “Everyone Is a Suspect”
- 14 Blood Work
- 15 A Ghostly Glow
- 16 Get Happy
- 17 A Red Dress
- 18 “I Haven’t Done Anything”
- 19 Blowfly
- 20 Murder Timeline
- 21 Poetic Justice
- 22 Edge of Sanity
- 23 Alternative Suspect
- 24 Capacity for Violence
- 25 Tactical Error
- 26 Voice of Authority
- 27 Admitted Perjurers
- 28 Memory Keeper
- 29 Confessions
- Epilogue
- About the Author
- Praise for Jon Wells
- Copyright
- About the Publisher