NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A top journalist crosses the yellow tape to investigate a shocking high-society crime.

Billionaires, philanthropists, socialites . victims. Barry and Honey Sherman seemed to lead charmed lives. But the globe was surprised in late 2017 when their physiques were found in a bizarre tableau in their elegant Toronto home. First described as murder-suicide – belts looped around their necks, they were found sitting beside their basement pool – police about The Billionaire Murders: The Mystical Fatalities of Barry and Honey Sherman afterwards ruled it a staged, targeted dual murder. Nothing at all about the case made sense to friends from the founder of one of the world’s largest generic pharmaceutical companies and his wife, a powerhouse in Canada’s charity world. Together, their wealth has been approximated at well over $4.7 billion.

There is another side to the tale. A strategic genius who constructed a large common drug company – Apotex Inc. – Barry Sherman was a self-described workaholic, renowned risk-taker, and disruptor during his fifty-year career. Seen as a good friend by many, Sherman was also feared by others. He was criticized for stifling academic freedom and using the courts to earn at all costs. Upset with building issues at his mansion, he sued and recouped a huge number from tradespeople. At the time of his loss of life, Sherman had just earned a decades-old legal case regarding four cousins who needed 20 percent of his lot of money.

Toronto Star investigative journalist Kevin Donovan chronicles the unsettling tale from the beginning, interviewing family, friends, and colleagues, and sheds fresh light around the Shermans’ lives and the troubling dual murder. Deeply investigated and authoritative, The Billionaire Murders is normally a compulsively readable tale of a strange and perplexing criminal offense.