Forty Words for Sorrow, Giles Blunt
Forty Words for Sorrow, Giles Blunt
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Forty Words for Sorrow

Author: Giles Blunt

Narrator: James Daniels

Unabridged: 10 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017

Synopsis

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

About Giles Blunt

Giles Blunt is the author of Forty Words for Sorrow, hailed by Jonathan Kellerman as "one of the finest crime novels I've ever read" and by the Los Angeles Times as "the most horrifying story since The Silence of the Lambs."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sonja Rosa Lisa ♡ on December 15, 2021

Es herrscht tiefster Winter in Kanada. Die Temperaturen liegen weit unter dem Gefrierpunkt. Da wird in einem Minenschacht die Leiche eines kleinen Mädchens gefunden, festgefroren in einem Eisblock. Das Kind wurde ermordet. Es werden noch weitere Kinder und Jugendliche in der Kleinstadt vermisst, und......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey on February 13, 2020

***Basis for the hit Canadian TV series Cardinal.*** ”It gets dark early in Algonquin Bay. The forty-sixth parallel may not be all that far north; you can be much farther north and still be in the United States, and even London, England, is a few degrees closer to the North Pole. But this is Ontario,......more

Goodreads review by Paul on September 09, 2023

What happened to the fabled northern Ontario butter tarts? Truly nasty psychopathic serial killer? Check. Dirty cop sub-plot? Check. Internal police politics and inter-agency squabbling? Check. Superb characterization and just a hint of misplaced romance? Check. Magnificent, spot-on accurate description......more

Goodreads review by Peter on May 09, 2024

This was an extremely exciting thriller. John Cardinal and Lise Delorme desperately try to find a killer of young kids. Because of his cruelty the press refers to him as Windigo Killer. What is his motif? With hardly any traces investigation is difficult. Our main characters have their own personal......more

Goodreads review by Jack on October 16, 2024

5 Stars. How well do you like mysteries set in locales you know or where you live? I loved this one. Algonquin Bay, actually the small Canadian city of North Bay at the head of Lake Nipissing in north-east Ontario, is the setting. Much of the province shows up including Sudbury, Ottawa and, to the s......more

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