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Der Nebel ist so dicht, dass Ivan Bergeron die Hand vor den Augen nicht sieht. So staunt er nicht schlecht, als sein Hund ihm einen abgerissenen Arm vor die Füße legt, den er offenbar in der Wildnis oberhalb von Algonquin Bay gefunden hat, einem kleinen Nest in Ontario im Südosten Kanadas. Zunächst glauben Detective John Cardinal und seine Partnerin Lise Delmore, dass der Mann von einem Bären getötet wurde. Doch schon bald entdecken sie in der...

A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity. A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history's most shocking moral crucibles. In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad's head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish new recruit, Victor Pena, is assigned to assist in her interrogation. Before they learn so much as her name ...

Algonquin Bay, ein kleines Nest in Ontario im Südosten Kanadas, ist im Winter ein unwirtlicher Ort. Die Eisdecke auf dem See hielte einem Güterzug stand, und das Schlafzimmer in seiner Holzhütte kann Detective John Cardinal als Kühltruhe nutzen. Nicht nur die Kälte, auch die Einsamkeit macht Cardinal zu schaffen, seit seine Frau in eine Psychiatrie eingewiesen wurde und die Tochter an der Eliteuniversität Yale Kunst studiert. Als spielende Kin...

Dark and atmospheric psychological thriller set in a freezing Ontario winter - guaranteed to chill readers to the marrow.

Ad Algonquin Bay, tranquilla cittadina vicino a Toronto, la neve dell'inverno ha ricoperto ogni cosa. Anche il corpo mutilato della tredicenne Katie Pine, che viene ritrovato in una miniera abbandonata, completamente congelato in un blocco di ghiaccio. La ragazzina era scomparsa mesi prima, ma tutti erano convinti che fosse semplicemente scappata da casa, come spesso succede agli adolescenti. Tutti tranne il detective John Cardinal: soltanto l...

Dark, atmospheric and terrifying psychological serial killer thriller set in a freezing Ontario winter, guaranteed to chill readers to the bone: `Forty Words for Sorrow is brilliant' Jonathan Kellerman

Stylish, atmospheric psychological thriller following on from the Silver Dagger Award winner, Forty Words for Sorrow.

A terrifying psychological thriller in which a spate of suicides could just be the work of a serial killer, featuring homicide detectives Cardinal and Delorme from the award-winning `Forty Words for Sorrow'.

The third atmospheric psychological thriller featuring detectives Cardinal and Delorme, from the award-winning author of FORTY WORDS FOR SORROW.

It's not unusual for John Cardinal to be hauled out of a warm bed on a cold night in Algonquin Bay to investigate a murder. And at first this dead body, sprawled in the parking lot of Motel 17, looks pretty run of the mill: the corpse has a big bootprint on his neck, and the likely suspect is his lover's outraged husband. But the lover has gone missing. And then Delorme, following a hunch, locates another missing woman, a senator's wife from O...

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 (conducted, he suspects, by his own partner), Cardinal is o...

Ein packender und harter Thriller vom preisgekrönten Bestsellerautor Giles Blunt. Algonquin Bay, Kanada: In einer kalten Nacht wird Detective John Cardinal zu einem Mordfall gerufen. Auf dem Parkplatz eines Motels liegt eine Männerleiche mit einem Stiefelabdruck an der Kehle - offenbar ein Mord aus Eifersucht. Die Geliebte des Mordopfers ist verschwunden. Kurz darauf wird, angekettet in einem verlassenen Hotel im Wald, die Frau eines Politike...

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When Giles Blunt's first crime novel appeared, the Toronto Star said it "immediately raises the bar of Canadian crime fiction.” The Globe and Mail calls him "a master storyteller”. With Vanishing Act, his debut collection of verse, Blunt delivers equally potent strength and quality, opening up for the reader a new, "wicked pack of cards”.

When the decomposed body of 13-year-old Katie Pine is found in an abandoned mine shaft, Detective John Cardinal is vindicated. He'd kept the Pine case open, and was demoted for his zeal. But Katie isn't the only youngster to disappear in the Canadian town of Algonquin Bay. Cardinal is allowed to reopen the files on three other lost kids. When another youth goes missing, he sees a pattern that screams "serial killer.

A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history's most shocking moral crucibles.In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad's head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish new recruit, Victor Peña, is assigned to assist in her interrogation. Before they learn so much as her name - ...

Only someone dumb or high would go out unprotected during Algonquin Bay's black fly season. But when a beautiful young woman covered in bites stumbles into a tavern, the local cops discover she is neither. The woman has a bullet in her brain-and no memory of how it happened or who she is. Homicide detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme know someone left her for dead. And if word gets out that she isn't, someone will try again.

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