Content area
Full Text
The Cottage Killer, Alison Shaw; $29.95 cloth 1-55199-024-5, 240 pp., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, Macfariane Walter & Ross, May Reviewed from uncorrected proofs
David Snow grew up in Orangeville, Ontario, a rural area north of Toronto, and in the early 1990s -- before the suspicions, charges, and convictions -- he dealt antiques. Alison Shaw, who moved to Orangeville with her husband Darris to do art, and live simply, worked out of Snow's store, had him over to the farmhouse, and let him babysit her toddler daughter. Still, she didn't like his attitudes about women. He had rotten teeth, serious body odour,...