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  • Published: 25 April 2023
  • ISBN: 9780676973815
  • Imprint: Knopf Canadian Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $39.99
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"Until You Are Dead" (updated)

Steven Truscott's Long Ride into History





The national bestselling and award-winning investigation into one of the most notorious murder cases in Canadian history—and that helped the wrongfully convicted Truscott clear his name after decades in prison.

Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Birks Family Foundation Award for Biography
Finalist for the Writers’ Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The award-winning investigation into one of the most notorious murder cases in Canadian history—and that helped the wrongfully convicted Truscott clear his name after decades in prison.

In 1959, a popular schoolboy, just 14 years old, was convicted and sentenced to hang for the rape and murder of his 12-year-old classmate. That summer, Canada lost its innocence and the shocking story of Steven Truscott became imprinted on the nation’s memory. First published in 2001, “Until You Are Dead” revealed new witnesses, leads and evidence never presented to the courts. Now this national bestseller is fully revised and updated, and takes readers from that fateful night in 1959 up to the new appeal granted to Truscott in 2006. Julian Sher’s award-winning and insightful chronicle details Steven Truscott’s dramatic final battle – with the help of his family, investigative journalists and lawyers – to clear his name once and for all.

  • Published: 25 April 2023
  • ISBN: 9780676973815
  • Imprint: Knopf Canadian Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $39.99
Categories:

Praise for "Until You Are Dead" (updated)

“The most in-depth examination to date.” —The Globe and Mail

“This riveting investigative account of crime, punishment, courtroom battles and wrongful conviction is now available in paperback in an updated edition.” —The Vancouver Sun

“Passionate, thorough and highly readable, it is also a weighty indictment of our criminal system, and the terrible results when it goes wrong.” —The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo)

“A chilling search for truth. Sher’s swiftly paced book follows Truscott from his arrest and trial through his darkest hours as Canada’s youngest death-row prisoner.” —Hamilton Spectator

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