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On July 25, 1986, in Toronto Ontario, vivacious Alison Parrott, an eleven-year-old budding track star, was sexually slain by Francis Roy, who had posed as a sports photographer to lure her from her home. He was a convicted rapist out on parole and in police custody shortly after the murder, but was released because he presented a falsified alibi. It was ten years before he was arrested, through matched DNA, a forensic technology that was not available in 1986. He was convicted in a sensational trial and given life imprisonment.

My daughter Clara was among Alison’s immediate circle of friends. Our family was closely involved in the aftermath, both the mourning and the investigation.

Although No Worst, There Is None is a work of fiction, written from my imagination and based on my own experience and philosophy as well as extensive research, aspects of it were drawn from the events of July 1986 and it is certain that the book would not exist without Alison’s tragic death. She is embedded in these pages.