A former homicide detective and eventual commander of the Toronto Police Service’s homicide unit, he built a career on piecing together the final moments of others.

And, in his book, The High Road - Confessions of a Homicide Cop (Simon & Schuster), he turns that same investigative instinct towards a man he never met: his maternal grandfather, German-born Arthur Jacobs.

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