Every few years a new criminal horror emerges that should cause us to hide in our homes, pray to our idols and hope the Evil Ones do not invade our neighbourhood. Remember all those stories about voodoo-chanting Jamaicans? The garishly tattooed Russians? How about when Hells Angels were blowing up small-town Quebec and slaughtering the…
Ian Mulgrew
Ian Mulgrew is a legal affairs columnist with The Vancouver Sun and author or co-author of several non-fiction books including Bud Inc.: Inside Canada’s Marijuana Industry (Random House, 2005). He can be reached at imulgrew@64vancouversun.com.
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A Canadian Tragedy
A novel about the Air India disaster personalizes one of the 20th century’s most horrific terrorist events September 2006
Anita Rau Badami tackles Big Issues in her third novel and I think it will leave some of her fans disappointed. The Montreal-based writer, whose previous efforts, Tamarind Mem and The Hero’s Walk, charmed audiences with bittersweet family drama, founders when she attempts to weave a sweeping tale around the monumental events of 20th century Indian history and the impact on the subcontinent’s Canadian…