Diplomat father. Murdered mother. Emotionally neglected children. An elaborate cover-up. Family dinners will never be the same.
"I think that my father murdered my mother."
That terrible and tragic belief spurs author Jeff Blackstock to investigate the circumstances of his mother's death decades earlier. His father George Blackstock was a career diplomat in Canada's foreign service, posted to glamorous Buenos Aires in the late 1950s with his wife Carol and their three children. A little more than a year after the family's arrival, Carol Blackstock was dead at age 24-poisoned by arsenic. Through calculated deception, an apparent cover-up by the Canadian government of the day, dereliction of duty by medical and police authorities on two continents, and sheer luck, George Blackstock was never charged with his wife's murder. Within a year of Carol's death, George Blackstock had remarried, and a young woman named Ingrid became the feared stepmother to Jeff and his...