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Book 4 in the John Cardinal series
In this highly anticipated fourth book from the spine-chilling John Cardinal series, Detective Cardinal confronts his most personal case yet. After years of battling depression, his wife, Catherine, is dead, and despite a suicide note written in her handwriting, Cardinal refuses to believe that she has really killed herself. Hateful notes taunting him about Catherine arrive by mail and he begins to suspect her death was an act of revenge. Cardinal is forced to work this case alone, and his investigation leads him towards a new and very different kind of criminal. One who is truly untouchable by any legal system.
About this Author
GILES BLUNT grew up in North Bay, Ontario, and spent twenty years in New York City as a novelist and a scriptwriter for such shows as Law and Order, Street Legal and Night Heat, before making his home in Toronto. He is the author of the bestselling Cardinal crime series, featuring Algonquin Bay's John Cardinal and Lise Delorme, which has been made into a TV series for CTV. He is widely considered "one of Canada's top crime novelists" (The Globe and Mail) and among "crime drama's elite" (Publishers Weekly). He is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and a recipient of the British Crime Writers' Macallan Silver Dagger.
Reviews
National Bestseller
"An emotionally involving and intellectually challenging journey from night in to day. A fine and moving novel about bereavement."
--Reginald Hill
"Blunt writes a taut, gripping tale of suspense that is loaded with gritty realism. . . . Few can match his wit, wry observations and emotionally charged background sketches."
--Edmonton Journal
"If Blunt ends the Cardinal series here, he has created a colourful parade of seasonal mysteries. But his readers will hope to meet Cardinal again, as a lion in winter."
--Winnipeg Free Press
"Blunt, who has received Canadian and international awards for this series, once again proves he can set the scene better than almost anyone else in the crime genre. . . . There is something else Blunt excels at, and that is shedding light on the chilling inner workings of the criminal mind."
--The Globe and Mail
"The most beautifully written, deeply felt page-turner of the year."
--Kirkus (starred review)
"In a series that has already taken home numerous awards, this volume, Blunt's fourth, stands out for its grace, compassion and the elegance of his writing. . . . It is a poignant literary work that nonetheless offers all the gritty satisfaction of a standard police procedural. This is, quite simply, a great book from a writer at the top of his form."
--Calgary Herald
Praise for Giles Blunt:
"Giles Blunt is one of the top crime writers around."
--National Post
"Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon."
--Jonathan Kellerman
"Blunt writes a taut, gripping tale of suspense that is loaded with gritty realism. . . . Few can match his wit, wry observations and emotionally charged background sketches."
--Edmonton Journal
"Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent."
--Tony Hillerman
"Blunt should be considered among the new practitioners of crime drama's elite."
--Publishers Weekly
"[Blunt] can join the select group of writers - such as Ian Rankin and Tony Hillerman--who can locate their readers in a fictional universe as physically real as the chair they inhabit."
--The Observer
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