Reviews
                     True Crime Editor's Recommended Book
                     The horrifying sex murders committed in southern Ontario by Paul
                     Bernardo and Karla Homolka caught the attention of the media and
                     public of Canada like few, if any, cases in that country's history. Readers
                     of either of the two previous books about the case (Deadly Innocence
                     and Lethal Marriage) may be skeptical that another retelling is
                     necessary, but Invisible Darkness benefits from Stephen Williams's
                     prodigious research and his unique perspective on Karla's culpability.
                     Williams had to jump several legal hurdles unique to Canada's "Crown
                     disclosure" protocols, but eventually was able to gain access to more than
                     70 hours of videotaped police interviews with Karla, interviews with Paul
                     by his defense attorney, and even psychiatrist's notes. Williams uses vivid
                     vignettes to tell the story, and refrains from unnecessarily graphic details
                     about the crimes. As the Winnipeg Free Press writes, "If any readers still
                     believe [Homolka] was a victim of post-traumatic stress, abused into
                     submission by Bernardo, this will put that idea to rest."

                     Synopsis
                     The case was so bizarre and the media so ever-present that the Canadian
                     government silenced its national press and barred foreign journalists from
                     the trial of Paul and Karla Bernardo. The Bernardos' seemingly storybook
                     marriage cloaked pure evil--the kidnapping, imprisonment, and murder of
                     high school girls, all to satisfy the couple's sexual cravings. Featuring
                     in-depth interviews with players on both sides, this account unravels the
                     facade behind this unsettling case.

                     From the Publisher
                     Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent
                     memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian
                     government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to
                     lock foreign journalists out of the courts.

                     To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale
                     marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy
                     and they buy a fashionable dream house in the suburbs. But, bored with
                     his straight, prestigious accounting job, Paul soon went freelance as an
                     international smuggler. He also revealed his boredom with conventional
                     sex--enough so that, one Christmas Eve, he persuaded his wife to drug
                     her own sister and engage in a menage a trois, during which the sister died
                     (a bungling coroner ruled her death accidental).The couple then upped the
                     ante, kidnapping and imprisoning several high school girls for sexual
                     marathons, which they videotaped before savagely murdering their
                     captives. When the girls' bodies were found, the police were stymied
                     (although Paul had been accused of rape and given a DNA test that
                     vanished for two years and only recently was linked to some fifty
                     sexual-assault cases) until Karla tried to have her husband arrested for
                     wife beating. During questioning, she confessed to the crimes and is now
                     serving two concurrent twelve-year sentences for manslaughter in
                     exchange for testifying against her husband who was jailed for life.