Murder of an Uncommon Man
An unexpected call from Riverton, Manitoba in 2007 forced
Janet Berg to confront the life and death of her father, Daniel. He was found shot
dead in a field with a shotgun and the
forty-year-old scientist needed to explain why. From her home in Seattle, half a
continent away, she sifted through musty boxes and her own memories to piece together what happened to Daniel over his last
twelve years of estrangement. Poring over scribbled notes and emails, police
reports, and her father’s well-worn Bible,
she uncovered a life that ended in one of two ways. The key to solving his murder
lay in two crime scenes with the same suspects and victim. As she put the last
pieces of the puzzle into place, a call from Riverton confirmed her suspicions:
the killer had taken her next victim and a second family was helpless to stop
her. Janet’s memoir chronicles the life and death of her father, from his youth
in 1950s Saskatchewan to unravelling the mystery of his death ten years afterwards.
