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On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women

Contributor(s): Cameron, Stevie (Author)

ISBN: 9780676975857

Publisher: Vintage Books Canada

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Pub Date: October 25, 2011

Dewey: 364.15230971

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.70" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.65 lbs) 768 pages

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Description: Looks at a series of missing women cases in Vancouver in 1998, focusing on the victims' families' and friends' pleas to start criminal investigations and describing how they led to the arrest of Robert William Pickton.

Review Quotes: NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Rich with detail. . . . Should you buy this book and read it? Definitely."
-- Neil Boyd, The Globe and Mail

"Stevie Cameron, who brought the art of political investigative journalism in Canada to new heights over the last three decades, has distinguished herself and her profession once again... [On the Farm] will surely remain a classic for generations of crime readers to come."
-- Winnipeg Free Press

"On the Farm is the book you were hoping for... A hard-hitting look at the botched police investigations of Pickton."
-- The Vancouver Sun

"No writer knows this story better than Cameron... [On the Farm] will go down as the definitive resource on the Pickton affair."
-- Maclean's

"Stevie Cameron has written yet another great book exposing, as is her wont, the 'comfortable establishment' in our country of indifference to societal ills that might be expensive nuisances to deal with."
-- The Tyee

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