“On an aesthetic level, Karla is almost unique in our literature. It is an extraordinary act of the imagination brought to bear on the facts “

           - Barry Callaghan

“The true crime is, in the hands of artists like Truman Capote and Stephen Williams, a kind of poetry, a kind of austere grand guignol, exuding gaudy horror.”

           - George Elliott Clarke

“I truly consider Stephen Williams to be the Norman Mailer of Canada.”

           - Peter C. Newman

I found Invisible Darkness a superior example of a dying breed   the straight, unhyped, literate work of true-crime"

- Jack Olsen, Edgar-Award winning author of Doc

"By far the most intelligent and subversive of the Bernardo triptych."

- Lynn Crosbie, Globe and Mail

"Williams has performed a remarkable, if unconventional, feat in the annals of true crime."

- Judge Lynn King, Toronto Star