Hank Idsin­ga, whose grand­fa­ther’s mur­der in the Holo­caust led him to become the country’s lead­ing homi­cide detec­tive, shares his insights into track­ing down mur­der­ers and ser­i­al killers over his thir­ty-year career. More than com­pe­tent, Idsin­ga was as capa­ble of track­ing down a get­away man as he was inform­ing a moth­er that her son would nev­er return home. Idsin­ga found him­self at the cen­ter of some of the most notable crimes in recent Toron­to his­to­ry. But it was in homi­cide that Hank Idsin­ga would prove such a vital asset to the Toron­to Police Ser­vice. Idsin­ga and his team of sea­soned detec­tives par­tic­i­pat­ed in tak­ing down some of the worst Toron­to has to offer, per­haps none more so than ser­i­al killer Bruce McArthur, who had ter­ror­ized the gay vil­lage for years. Idsin­ga became the pub­lic face for that inves­ti­ga­tion, and despite the crit­i­cism of the police force’s han­dling of the mur­ders, Idsin­ga always appeared strong and com­pas­sion­ate in front of the media’s cam­era flash­es. The High Road breathes life into the true detec­tive genre, with raw, acces­si­ble and punchy prose, as hon­est and com­pelling as the homi­cide detec­tive him­self. His grand­fa­ther would have been proud.