Kathleen Lippa is the author of the non-fiction, true crime book Arctic Predator: The Crimes of Edward Horne Against Children in Canada’s North, published by Dundurn Press.
Born in Toronto, and raised in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Kathleen studied ballet and modern dance at a professional level before embarking on a career in journalism. She graduated with a B.A. (English) from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1998, and worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers across Canada, including Nunavut News/North in Iqaluit.
A bestseller on Amazon when it was released in Canada in February 2025, Arctic Predator has been featured on CBC Radio across Canada including CBC Saskatchewan with Shauna Powers, Weekend AM in St. John’s with Heather Barrett, and Fresh Air with Ismaila Alfa in Toronto, and CTV Morning Live with Rosey Edeh in Ottawa.
Interviews with Kathleen about the writing of Arctic Predator and reporting on the book’s development and impact have appeared in The Telegram (Saltire, East Coast, Canada), Nunavut News/North, Cabin Radio (Yellowknife), Nunatsiaq News, The California Review of Books, The Winnipeg Free Press, BookTrib, and The Bookshelf Cafe News . You can also hear Kathleen talk about Arctic Predator on The New Books Network podcast, The Brian Crombie Hour, and The Artsy Raven podcast. The National Post, and Rabble.ca also had features on Arctic Predator when it was released.
Arctic Predator enjoyed successful book launches: Perfect Books in Ottawa on March 25, 2025, and at Indigo in St. John’s on April 4, 2025. The book is available at bookstores everywhere in Canada, and internationally. Just ask your favourite bookseller.
Review by Brian Tanguay, California Review of Books
What most impressed me about Arctic Predator, journalist Kathleen Lippa’s book about the crimes of notorious sexual predator Edward Horne, is her determination to investigate and report such a dark, disturbing story. Reporting on events that happened only a few years ago is challenging enough, going back decades requires total commitment to the truth — even more so in cases of sexual crimes against children where the law seeks to protect victims by restricting public disclosure. Lippa, who dedicates the book to the children of the North, made an extraordinary commitment to telling the story of Indigenous victims and their communities. Such stories are rarely deemed important enough to tell.
Arctic Predator is a reminder that events took place that caused damage and pain to vulnerable children, and affected a web of relationships. It’s the kind of damage and pain that isn’t necessarily visible and rarely ever heals. Deep trauma that plagues Horne’s surviving victims as they enter middle-age. Understanding the consequences of Horne’s crimes requires that one keep in mind the remoteness of Canada’s north and the interconnectedness of its inhabitants. Bonds of blood and marriage, place, culture and language create an insularity that magnifies significant or unusual events, deepens their impact and reverberation, etching them into collective memory. Read More in Articles. KL.
