A veteran police officer is releasing a new true crime book detailing London's murderous history between 1959-1984.
Michael Arntfield worked as a police officer for 15 years, investigating major crimes, robberies and working in criminal intelligence.
His newest book, Murder City: The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital explores a time period in which "London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground for depravity and villainy."
The ex-police officer now works as a professor at Western University teaching two courses he has developed, Forensic Writing and Writing Crime Fiction.
Now, the writer will be developing new material to be part of the Law & Literature Symposium at Vanderbilt University Law School. He has been named the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in crime and literature at the Tennessee university for 2016.
"It's a huge honour to be named the Fulbright Scholar at Vanderbilt University for 2016 and a great opportunity to further explore literary criminology, an emerging discipline that I have been developing at Western for the past few years," says Arntfield. "It's literary criticism meets criminal investigation. We're using the humanities and using narrative as an inroad to criminal evidence and procedure."
Murder City is described as an instructional true crime book for a mass audience. Arntfield's last project was the "To Catch a Killer" series on the Oprah Winfrey Network.