Niagara Falls Confidential
A true-crime collection of yarns about mobsters, murder and mayhem that's a hellish postcard from the honeymoon capital. --John Petkovic, Cleveland Plain DealerThe most shocking, scary and sinister episodes in the history of the cataract city. It's like reading a localized version of Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon. We get to meet Billy Shrubsall, the class valedictorian who bludgeoned his mother to death with a baseball bat on the eve of graduation in 1988. It turns out that act was just one example of a violent nature that would eventually put him behind bars in Canada. --Artvoice, BuffaloMike Hudson had some different stories to tell. The one about the dashing lawyer beaten to a bloody mess with, among other things, a can opener. The one about a mob boss who conveniently owned a funeral parlor. The one about the school valedictorian who beat his mother to death with a baseball bat the night before his graduation, then took on a new identity as a serial rapist in Nova Scotia. --John Law, Niagara Falls (Ont.) Review