
Cardinal
Forty Words for Sorrow (TV Tie-in Edition)
Giles Blunt(Author)
Random House of Canada (Publisher)
Published on 16. January 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
338 pages
978-0-7352-7354-2 (ISBN)
Description
Now a major television series, CARDINAL.
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 upexcept Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence onlyserves to get him removed from homicide. Haunted by a criminal secret in his ownpast 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 anabandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth:that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of serial killers. The case as itunfolds proves eerily reminiscent of the Moors murders in Britain, as anunassuming young man and his belligerently loyal girlfriend scout young victimsfor their macabre games.
With the media, the provincial police and his owndepartment questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuousthreads towards the unthinkable. Time isn't only running out for him, but foranother young victim, tied up in a basement wondering when and how his captorswill kill him.
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 upexcept Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence onlyserves to get him removed from homicide. Haunted by a criminal secret in his ownpast 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 anabandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth:that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of serial killers. The case as itunfolds proves eerily reminiscent of the Moors murders in Britain, as anunassuming young man and his belligerently loyal girlfriend scout young victimsfor their macabre games.
With the media, the provincial police and his owndepartment questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuousthreads towards the unthinkable. Time isn't only running out for him, but foranother young victim, tied up in a basement wondering when and how his captorswill kill him.
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Series
Language
English
Publishing group
Random House
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7352-7354-2 (9780735273542)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
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.