Serial Killers Canada : A Disturbing Journey in the Most Shocking True Crime Stories in Canadian History

by Matthew Clark

The introduction of the book gives you a general but clear idea about their psychological types, common childhood traumas, murder weapons, and the crime scenes they choose.

Insight into the realistic psychology of serial killers- some murder for pleasure, some do so for gain. Not all of them leave clues, and they plan their crimes to be unidentifiable even years later.

Some kill for fame, and some kill for easing their childhood traumas. They never, however, kill for money.

In this book, you will learn about the most famous serial killers and mysterious cases that have been masterfully concealed or intentionally revealed by the killers.

You will learn about how they get started, and how they end up, what their childhoods were like, and what they fear the most.

You will find out how to spot serial killers, and what to expect from them as criminals.

If you’re ready to tune in with the most mind-bending stories about scandalous murders of all times…

145 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 24, 2021

Reviews

[Emilija · Rating 2 out of 5]

2025 52 Book Challenge - Summer Connections Mini Challenge - 3) Set In The Country Where The Previous Author Is From (for me, this was Kate Posey, who is Canadian)

This is a book that you would read as an introductory piece of work. It's quite a low quality work, with some cases missing details and frequent reuse of words. It was an interesting piece of work, but it could have been way better than it was.

[Deirdre · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐s
I've read and enjoyed other serial killer books by Matthew Clark. In this book he focuses on Canadian serial killers, but unfortunately he did something he hadn't done in other books. He started discussing two different killers but never relayed anything about their crimes. I found it quite disappointing.

The remaining serial murderers were depraved monsters - one was even a woman. Some zigzagged across Canada others remained in a particular area to perpetrate their atrocities. The most appalling killers were those targeting young boys, older women, as well as Aboriginal women. The indigenous women died from forced alcohol poisoning. Most of the rest of these killers' victims were raped, sometimes tortured, and mutilated.

Also included was the disturbing story of Bernardo and Homolka, as well as the disgraced military officer Russell Williams.

[Ashley · Rating 1 out of 5]

When I found this book I thought that I was going to like it. I don’t know much about my country’s crime history. So I was excited to read this. But it has left me disappointed. There was a lot of information that I felt was missing. Especially with Pickton’s case. There was no talk about his crimes whatsoever. I think that this author needs to do more research before writing more in this genre. I felt like I was reading a grade student’s essay. And there was a lot of words that this author reused. I’m giving this a 1.

[GuyBanff · Rating 1 out of 5]

Interesting Topic Very Low Quality

Canadian serial killers is a very low quality work. It reads as if the only research done was by reading newspaper reports. There is next to no context or attempted explanations of motive, psychology, justice, sociology, nothing.

[Patrick J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Baffled

I found this very interesting despite keeping updated on current events over the years,broad range of killers were covered, unknown to me.

[Tasha Whyatt · Rating 1 out of 5]

Disappointed. Read like something I wrote in junior high. Very brief information on each serial killer and several lacking details of their crimes.