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Silver Dagger–winner Blunt spins a highly disturbing but truly memorable tale about a Canadian cult's murder spree. After homicide detective John Cardinal is called in to talk to a young woman who wandered into an Algonquin Bay bar sans ID, keys or memory, doctors examining her find a bullet in her brain. Figuring whoever tried to kill her may want to finish the job, Cardinal puts the woman, dubbed "Red" for her coppery hair, into seclusion. Backed by partner Lise Delorme, Cardinal begins assembling what pieces of information he's been able to gather, and the investigation quickly takes the team from the mundane (drugs, bikers) to the grisly (a string of dismemberment killings apparently committed by a Cuban cult known as Palo Mayombe). The action will glue readers to the page, but the plot is equally moving in its quieter, more poignant moments when Cardinal, whose wife suffers from bouts of severe depression, must take time to handle family matters. Based on a true crime, the pulsing, tightly plotted narrative again shows why Blunt (Forty Words for Sorrow) should be considered among the new practitioners of crime drama's elite.
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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*Starred Review* Blunt sets his highly acclaimed Cardinal and Delorme series in Canada's remote Algonquin Bay, which is far from civilization (the closest city, Toronto, is 250 miles to the south), far from prosperous, and filled with such daily-living challenges as relentless winter storms followed by the spring arrival of rapacious black flies. The locals' obsession with protecting themselves from the onslaught of the flies makes them all the more shocked when a woman enters a bar, seemingly oblivious to the fact that she's covered in fly bites. The woman has no idea where she is, or who she is, and when the cops take her to the hospital, doctors discover that her thick red hair has been obscuring a bullet hole in her skull--the bullet lodged in her brain is responsible for her amnesia. Series homicide detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme take on the case, which links to a vicious motorcycle gang and a series of ritualistic murders. As in his previous two series entries --Forty Words for Sorrow (2001) and The Delicate Storm (2003)--Blunt transposes an actual true-crime story, this time about ritual killings along the Mexican border, into the North Woods. But it's what Blunt does with the true-crime graft that is amazing. His characters, even to the lonely guy sitting by himself at the end of the bar, are wonderfully realistic; his pacing never flags; his knowledge of police procedure is accurate without being show-offy; and he leaves the reader not so much with a story as with a glimpse into a perfectly realized world. First-rate. Connie Fletcher
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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This review is from: Blackfly Season (Paperback)
This mystery novel is well paced and plotted; although the story is complex it still flows nicely it is not burdened with subplots, all the characters have depth and are interesting. Without a doubt, I am eager to read the fourth adventure.
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This is the first Giles Blunt book I have read and I will be reading more of his books now. I had expected a little more suspence and a bit harder time trying to figure out who the bad guy was but it was still very well written and had me wishing I had the time to just sit and read none stop. One thing that did surprise me was being drawn into the personal life of the lead character John Cardinal. At first I just wanted the mystery part and was annoyed with all the personal stuff but by the end of the book I was hooked and now need to know what happens in the next book.
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This review is from: Black Fly Season (Paperback)
I really liked that book. The story of a detective and his partner, a red hair victim he's trying to protect and she wants to find her drug addict brother. All this is happening in Algonquin Bay and Toronto. It's a nice change from a US investigation. Not alot different but still, I could relate more. :)
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