Review: Pure schlock, and further perverting the Homolka case.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 15, 2012
If you're looking for a starter book about Karla Homolka, this isn't the one you should read. The case is certainly worthy of reading about, and there is no lack of interesting material, and books published on the subject.The author essentially goes looking for the notorious killer and finds her, inserting a bunch of overdramatising about how scared she was for her safety .Homolka isn't an escaped convict, she made a deal with Canadian government that duped them, but that they were forced to honour.The idea that Homolka and her lawyer husband would attempt to harm the author given that the entire Canadian government and public would like to find a reason to put her back in prison is hooey. The author was in more danger driving around the Caribbean island where she eventually found her subjectEventually when found the author and her subject sit down for a few hours of uncomfortable discussion and she leaves. Then after Homolka refuses to pose for a photograph , she send a photographer to stake out her house and essentially wait for her wonder into his lenses view onion her own back yard so he can grab his picture.While the logic and reasoning the author uses to determin where her subject is living and under what name is interesting and an impressive piece of work. I found it disturbing how the author decided that though the Canadian government and obviously the island where she lived recognised her right to live as a private citizen, the author decided she was the final arbiter of who deserved privacy, and under what circumstances. I find the crimes and the duplicity that Homolka used with the government disgusting, and the end result a perversion of justice. I understand the governments position of needing to stand by the deals that they make, so that others can feel comfortable making deals with the government I'm exchange for valuable information that they give, to not only protect life, but national security . The author deciding that the deal wasn't good enough to morally prevent her subject from being stalked and then stalked again after she does talk to her pursuer is however, wretched in its own right , and a further perversion . This book is paparazzi schlock.There was nothing gained by this book. No information uncovered. No admission by Homolka that called for an entire book made from what was first a newspaper piece. What the author sought to do was hunt down her quarry, and force her into a discussion that revealed nothing by saying essentially if you won't talk to me, others will come.