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Forty Words for Sorrow

By Giles Blunt

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780770428730

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The first in a series of spine-chilling thrillers featuring Detective John Cardinal and enjoying international raves!

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 JoContinue

The first in a series of spine-chilling thrillers featuring Detective John Cardinal and enjoying international raves!

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. Haunted by a criminal secret in his own past, and hounded by a special investigation into corruption on the force, Cardinal is on the brink of losing his career — and his family.

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 horrific truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of serial killers. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the unthinkable. Time isn't only running out for him, but for another young victim, tied up in a basement wondering how and when his captors will kill him.

Evoking the Canadian winter and the hearts of the killers and cops in icily realistic prose, Giles Blunt has produced a masterful crime novel.

• Winner of the British Crime Writers Association's Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction
• Shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award
• Hardcover has been published in the US and UK to stellar reviews

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  • Forty Words for Sorrow By Giles Blunt

    iles Blunt's Forty Words for Sorrow takes place during a dreary February on the Chippewa Reserve in northern Ontario, Canada. Blunt's bone-chilling description of the snowbound and desolate area is so crisp and concise that you practically need mitte ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Forty Words for Sorrow By Giles Blunt

    s Blunt's Forty Words for Sorrow takes place during a dreary February on the Chippewa Reserve in northern Ontario, Canada. Blunt's bone-chilling description of the snowbound and desolate area is so crisp and concise that you practically need mittens ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • Mystery was just a little too generic -- nothing to really recommend it...

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  • English Books
  • Mass Market Paperback 400 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0770428738
  • ISBN-13: 9780770428730
  • Publisher: Seal Books
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 2002
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
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