A Globe and Mail Top 100 BookShortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book AwardsAn Indigo Best Book of 2020Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best...
A Globe and Mail Top 100 BookShortlisted for the 2021 Toronto Book AwardsAn Indigo Best Book of 2020Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book (Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence) The tragic and resonant story of the disappearance of eight men--the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur--from Toronto's queer community. In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men--Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan--from Toronto's gay village were, perhaps, linked. When the leads ran dry, the search was shut down, on paper classified as open but suspended. By 2015, investigative journalist Justin Ling had begun to retrace investigators' steps, convinced there was evidence of a serial killer. Meanwhile, more men would go missing, and police would continue to deny that there was a threat to the community. In early 2019, landscaper Bruce McArthur was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of eight men. There is so much more to the story than that.
Based on more than five years of in-depth reporting,
Missing from the Village recounts how a serial killer was allowed to stalk the city, how the community responded, and offers a window into the lives of these eight men and the friends and family left behind. Telling a story that goes well beyond Toronto, and back decades, Justin Ling draws on extensive interviews with those who experienced the investigation first-hand, including the detectives who eventually caught McArthur, and reveals how systemic racism, homophobia, transphobia, and the structures of policing fail queer communities.
Author: Justin Ling
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 05/03/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780771048661
About the AuthorJUSTIN LING is an investigative journalist whose reporting has focused on stories and issues undercovered and misunderstood. His writing has appeared in the
Globe and Mail, the
National Post, the
Guardian,
Foreign Policy, and elsewhere. In 2019 he hosted The Village, the award-winning third season of the CBC podcast
Uncover, which examined cold cases from the 1970s that were reopened as a result of the McArthur investigation.
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