From amazon.com:
Billionaires, philanthropists, socialites . . . victims. Barry and Honey Sherman appeared to lead charmed lives. But the world was shocked in late 2017 when their bodies were found in a bizarre tableau in their elegant Toronto home. First described as murder-suicide — belts looped around their necks, they were found seated beside their basement swimming pool — police later ruled it a staged, targeted double murder. Nothing about the case made sense to friends of the founder of one of the world’s largest generic pharmaceutical firms and his wife, a powerhouse in Canada’s charity world. Together, their wealth has been estimated at well over $4.7 billion.

There was another side to the story. A strategic genius who built a large generic drug company — Apotex Inc. — Barry Sherman was a self-described workaholic, renowned risk-taker, and disruptor during his fifty-year career. Regarded as a generous friend by many, Sherman was also feared by others. He was criticized for stifling academic freedom and using the courts to win at all costs. Upset with building issues at his mansion, he sued and recouped millions from tradespeople. At the time of his death, Sherman had just won a decades-old legal case involving four cousins who wanted 20 percent of his fortune.

Toronto Star investigative journalist Kevin Donovan chronicles the unsettling story from the beginning, interviewing family members, friends, and colleagues, and sheds new light on the Shermans’ lives and the disturbing double murder. Deeply researched and authoritative, The Billionaire Murders is a compulsively readable tale of a strange and perplexing crime.

Having grown up in Toronto and dated a boy from the affluential neighbourhood that this happened - and having met the Barry and Honey Sherwood once at his home I was so interested in this case right from the beginning.

I had seen the documentary based on this book on Crave a few weeks ago and then right after, came across this book at the Turner Drive LFL in Burlington, so I was thrilled to snatch it up!

I think Donovan did a great job of telling the story and some background info about the couple and their family, and close friends - much more in depth that the documentary was.

It was a horrible crime that seems to have torn the family apart.

Passing along to jessibud.

Thanks for this! The case intrigued me from the outset and though I have not seen the documentary, I did hear an episode or two of the podcast. I am generally not a fan of crime or the true crime genre but this one seems different. Close to home, in the setting and not so distant in the past.
Thanks again for saving this for me.