WA Winter, author of The Secret Lives of Dentists, will be discussing his new book with Curt Brown.

Crippled by a police bullet during the climactic shootout, Joe LaVoie has spent the past 38 years in a wheelchair. Now, dying, he’s desperate to know—yet terrified to learn—the awful truth behind his family’s demise. Years after the brothers’ bloody rampage, a local journalist wrote: “People blame poverty, lack of parental control, a failure of the criminal justice system, even the brothers’ diminutive stature. I would add to that list some kind of curse—a dark star or black cloud—that shadowed them for decades. The LaVoies couldn’t get anything right. They couldn’t catch a break. They couldn’t win for losing.”

WA Winter "My Name is Joe LaVoie