The murder and investigation that captured Canada’s attention, rendered in all its shocking and puzzling detail.

Richard Oland was brutally murdered in his office in downtown Saint John, New Brunswick in the early evening of July 6th, 2011. His killer sprayed blood everywhere as he smashed Richard Oland’s head with dozens of blows. It had all the characteristics of an organized crime hit, designed to kill one and warn others.

His murder remains unsolved and unexplained. The Saint John city police have no suspects. Individuals who could explain the murder have disappeared, pleaded bad memories or gone silent.

Saint John, and the rest of Canada, were witness to two murder trials where Dennis Oland, Richard’s son, stood accused of the murder. In this book, Janice Middleton sets out the obvious and clear evidence that Dennis could not have been the murderer. Even so, Dennis was convicted by a jury in his first trial, likely because everyone in the city knew of a motive that was never mentioned in court: Richard had had an affair with his son's wife.

The Oland family got Dennis acquitted, but his acquittal left questions unanswered: who killed Richard Oland? And why was he targeted?

Janice Middleton pieces together the tangled story of Saint John’s most dysfunctional citizens. She points to the people who would have wanted Richard Oland dead, and to the shadowy figures who arrived in Saint John interested in combining a front operation, which Oland consulted on, with a new channel for importing illegal drugs that stood to make these "businessmen" millions. The deal went sour, and they left town and disappeared.

This is a compelling account of how someone got away with murdering a rich, powerful, sleazy leading citizen of Saint John.