4.0

This book is very well done. Some reviews say this book was a bit confusing timeline-wise, but I didn’t find that to be true for me while listening to the audiobook. I had listened to CBC’s Missing & Murdered & Finding Cleo podcast, and knew basic background info about the Pickton Farm murders, so maybe that is why I didn’t personally experience that critique? Either way, this investigative true crime book does a great job highlighting the unsolved and under-reported cases of dozens of missing and murdered indigenous women who have disappeared along the Highway of Tears. The author is not First Nations, but I felt that she did a good job centering the stories of the victims and their families, and outlining the systemic racism and injustices that disproportionally effect indigenous people- indigenous women particularly. This book gives the families of the victims the space to speak and advocate for their missing and murdered loved ones, and all of the women, plus many more, deserve our attention and deserve justice.