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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Greg Dawson, of the Centre of Forensic Sciences, for details on the handling of suspect documents.

I am also grateful, once again, to Staff Sergeant (Ret.) Rick Sapinski of the North Bay police for information on police procedures. Any errors that remain are despite his generous efforts.

ALSO BY GILES BLUNT
Forty Words for Sorrow

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, whose persistence has only served to get him removed from Homicide. Haunted by a criminal secret in his own past, and hounded by a special investigation into corruption in the force, Cardinal is on the brink of losing his career—and his family.

When the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled from an abandoned mineshaft, only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrific truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of serial killers….

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ALSO BY GILES BLUNT
The Delicate Storm

When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eaten by bears near Algonquin Bay, Detective John Cardinal is assigned to the case. Without a solid lead, and with the RCMP and CSIS involved, Cardinal is forced to band together with his nemesis, Sergeant Malcolm Musgrave, to untangle the deceit and cover-ups surrounding the case. Then a well-respected local woman is found frozen under a glaze of ice in the woods, and Cardinal realizes that the two very different murders may well be connected.

Working closely with his trusted colleague, Detective Lise Delorme, to whom he feels a dangerous attraction, Cardinal fights his emotions and a relentless ice storm only to uncover a knot of lies and conspiracies that go back more than thirty years and extend to the highest reaches of Canadian intelligence.

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ALSO BY GILES BLUNT
Blackfly Season

It’s spring in Algonquin Bay, and the blackflies are driving people a little mad. Detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme have a strange case on their hands—a young woman has wandered, bug-bitten, out of the Algonquin Bay bush with a gunshot wound to the head. Cardinal becomes obsessed with finding out who she is, and who is trying to kill her. When the body of a local biker, Wombat Guthrie, is found in a cave, it seems the two cases are related—and the link appears to be a drug dealer and self-proclaimed shaman who calls himself Red Bear.

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Copyright © 2006 Giles Blunt

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