Reviews - Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System that Failed Toronto's Queer Community

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Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System that Failed Toronto's Queer Community

Justin Ling

4.32 AVERAGE

subparpeaches's review

4.5

dark emotional informative medium-paced

mackenzietaylorreid's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional informative mysterious tense

wordsbetweenlines's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

bail_daye's review

3.0

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

menschenliebe's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

I appreciated the point of view of the writer who tried to focus on the failure of the police and the system that allowed these disappearences to be ignored rather than on the gory details of the murders.

I personally found the comments regarding journalism, true crime and ethics very interesting and those made a lot of sense in the larger context of the book. It also somewhat explained why the book seemed to really stay away from any sensationalism and deal as respectfully as possible with the victims and their close ones.

I learned quite a few things about the queer community, Canada‘s history of policing queer communities.