Dans l'atmosphère lunaire de l'île de Windigo, le corps de Katie Pine, 13 ans, est retrouvé emprisonné dans un sarcophage de glace.Les cadavres d'adolescents que John Cardinal, de la brigade criminelle d'Algonquin Bay, va découvrir par la suite ne laissent aucun doute : un serial killer est à l'œuvre, insaisissable et d'une cruauté inégalée.Mais Cardinal a d'autres raisons de s'inquiéter : une faute passée qui menace de le rattraper, une femme dépressive, et le curieux comportement de sa coéquipière Lise Delorme, ancienne des Affaires internes...La beauté irréelle des paysages glacés de l'Ontario, associée à l'humanité des protagonistes, met dramatiquement en relief l'horreur paralysante du Mal à l'état pur.

Forty Words for Sorrow

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Giles Blunt

Mystery

HarperCollins, Publishers

A stunningly inventive crime thriller featuring homicide detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme from Forty Words for Sorrow.  Algonquin Bay, northern Ontario: A freak warm front has moved in, rousing hungry bears from hibernation--and spurring a smart and powerful killer to commit the perfect crime...over and over again.

Delicate Storm

Collins

Dark, atmospheric and terrifying psychological serial killer thriller set in a freezing Ontario winter, guaranteed to chill readers to the bone: 'Forty Words for Sorrow is brilliant' Jonathan Kellerman When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up, except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. Then the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of killers. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the unthinkable. But time isn't only running out for him: there's also another young victim tied up in a basement wondering how and when he will die.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Harper Collins Pod

Stylish, atmospheric psychological thriller following on from the Silver Dagger Award winner, Forty Words for Sorrow. A gruesome discovery in the wilderness above Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote cabin that has served as an abattoir for a cold-blooded killer! But the woods hide other horrors and soon a second body is discovered, naked and shrouded in ice. When one of the victims is identified as an American the Mounties have to be called in, but it's the Canadian Secret Service that arouses the most mistrust. Is their interference due to a suspected terrorist link, or is there something even more sinister behind it? With Northern Ontario in the grip of an ice storm of once-in-a-hundred years severity, the woods take on a glittering, lethal beauty. And in this winter wonderland John Cardinal must hunt down and confront a killer.

The Delicate Storm

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

The Fields of Grief

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Thrillers & Suspense

HARPER/COLLINS

'Red Bear stood close to the fire and stretched toward the sky, every muscle in his body straining. The veins in his neck stood out like electrical cords. His voice had gone thin and raspy, and the words came streaming out of him with a terrible urgency. The words– if in fact they were words – collided with one another.' [Blackfly Season, page 94]\nAccording to Detective John Cardinal, the truly diabolical thing about blackflies is their stealthy silence; there is no warning and no chance of a pre-emptive strike. Every year at the beginning of May, they take over Algonquin Bay.\nThis year, the blackflies aren’t the only ones to make their way into town. A self-proclaimed shaman and card-carrying member of the Chippewa First Nations has also arrived. Known only as Red Bear, the mysterious figure has recruited three young men who share a history of drug use and living on the fringe.\nThere's another mysterious visitor. At the World Tavern, the least reputable bar in Algonquin Bay, OPP officer Jerry Commanda is enjoying his regular Friday night Diet Coke with a squeeze of lemon. He meets a young red-haired woman who is unable to tell him her name, where she lives, or how she came to be there. It’s not until a hospital X-ray reveals a bullet lodged in her brain that the reason for her amnesia becomes clear. That's when John Cardinal and Lise Delorme were called to take over the case.\nWhat do they find? Bikers, bizarre hieroglyphics, and a rising body count.

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Vintage Canada

Cold Eye

BANTAM PRESS

Bad Juliet

Dundurn

When the badly decomposed body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is found in an abandoned mine shaft, John Cardinal is vindicated. It was Cardinal who'd kept the Pine case open - insisting she was no mere runaway - and Cardinal had been demoted to the burglary squad for his excessive zeal. But Katie Pine isn't the only youngster to have gone missing in the rural town of Algonquin Bay, and Cardinal is now given the go-ahead to reopen the files on three other lost kids. When another youth is reported missing, he begins to see a pattern that screams "serial killer." Meanwhile, the brass have partnered him with Lisa Delorme, newly shifted to homicide from the Office of Special Investigations, and Cardinal can't help but wonder if she's been sent to keep tabs on him. A guilty conscience makes him think so. Superbly paced, with fully-fleshed characters and utterly convincing police detail, Forty Words for Sorrow is also a novel of place that transcends the genre. Blunt puts us in a small Canadian town in the dead of winter and makes us feel the cold, then turns the cold into a metaphor for the destruction of young lives. "Blunt has done for Canada's north what James Lee Burke did for Cajun Louisiana." - Margaret Cannon, Toronto Globe and Mail

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Forty Words for Sorrow

Delicate Storm

Forty Words for Sorrow

The Delicate Storm

The Fields of Grief

The Fields of Grief

Blackfly Season *Premium

Cold Eye

Bad Juliet

Forty Words for Sorrow