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I’m always drawn to books by someone I know, even if only in passing, and my jaw dropped when I read the blurb on the back of this book by Jeff Blackstock, whom I worked with many years ago in the Latin America division at Global Affairs Canada.
This is the true-crime story of how his father, also a diplomat, poisoned Jeff’s mother.
Jeff was only a boy at the time: it took him years to work things out in the face of uncooperative relatives, elusive medical records, and above all, authorities intent on a cover-up.
It has all the…
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