the latest:

THE PICKTON FILE

...available from Knopf, June 12 2007

The publisher writes:

"Stevie Cameron turns her renowned analytical eye from the "crooks in suits" of her previous books to the case of Vancouver's missing women and the man who has been charged with killing 26 of them, who if convicted will have the horrific distinction of being the worst serial killer in Canadian history.

It's a shocking story that may not be over anytime soon. When the police moved in on Pickton's famous residence, the "pig farm" of Port Coquitlam, in February 2002, the entire 14-acre area was declared a crime scene -- the largest one in Canadian history. Well over 150 investigators and forensics experts were required, including 102 anthropology students from across the country called in to sift through the entire farm, one shovelful of dirt at a time.

A woman who is considered by many to be this country's best investigative journalist, Cameron has been thinking about the missing women of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside since 1998, when the occasional newspaper story ran about families and friends of some of the 63 missing women agitating for action -- and being ignored by police and politicians. Robert William "Willie" Pickton has been on her mind since his arrest, that February five years ago, for the murders of two of the women, Mona Wilson and Sereena Abotsway, both drug-addicted prostitutes from the impoverished neighbourhood where all the missing women had connections.

Living half-time in Vancouver for the last five years, Stevie Cameron has come to know many of the people involved in this case, from families of the missing women to the lawyers involved on both sides. She writes not only with tireless investigative curiosity, but also with enormous compassion for the women who are gone and the ones who still struggle to ply their trade on the Downtown Eastside.

THE PIG FARM (Knopf)  To be published after the two Pickton trials end.

THE LAST AMIGO: KARLHEINZ SCHREIBER AND THE ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL (McClelland & Stewart, 2001) won an Edgar award from the Crime Writers of Canada as the best true crime book of 2001. Harvey Cashore was co-author.

BLUE TRUST: THE AUTHOR, THE LAWYER, HIS WIFE AND HER MONEY(1998), has been optioned for a feature film and won merit awards as both the best true crime book of the year and as the best business book of the year.

ON THE TAKE: CRIME, CORRUPTION AND GREED IN THE MULRONEY YEARS (1994) was the #1 Canadian bestselling book in both 1994 and 1995 and won Book of the Year in 1994.

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OTTAWA INSIDE OUT: POWER, PRESTIGE AND SCANDAL IN THE NATION'S CAPITAL (1989) a guide to political life in Canada's capital, was a national bestseller

WHITEY ... In progress. A book about my father Whitey Dahl, a famous American fighter pilot who flew for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, was the subject of a movie called Arise My Love starring Ray Milland and Claudette Colbert and joined the RCAF during WW II.