Sunday, April 28, 2013

Forty Words for Sorrow

A body has been found in an old mine shaft on an island near Algonquin Bay.  Detective John Cardinal has been assigned the investigation.  Lise Delorme has been assigned to work with him on the case, he would have preferred Ian McLeod.  What Cardinal doesn't know is that Delorme is checking up on him on behalf of Special Investigations.

There are two other young people missing; a young boy who inexplicably disappears, just like the young girl, which the body turns out to be, and a 17 year old girl from Toronto.  Cardinal's boss, Don Dyson, refuses to believe that it is murder until the younger girl's body has been found.

Cardinal begins to go through old cases of missing young people in hopes of finding something similar.  His investigation leads him to another body of a young boy.  With the body is found a cassette tape, which provides surprising information, but not enough to nail the killer, whoever that may be.

Meantime the killer has picked up another victim, and is keeping him drugged.  Delorme still has to go through with the investigation of her partner, and what she has found appears incriminating.

Author Giles Blunt has done a wonderful job of getting into the minds of the criminals and police in this murder mystery.  The climax of the story is exciting and makes for tense reading.  It was a book I couldn't put down, I highly recommend it.

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