Until the Night (The John Cardinal Crime Series)

About this book

Its 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 lovers outraged husband. But the lover has gone missing. And then Delorme following a hunch locates another missing woman a senators wife from Ottawa frozen in the ruins of an abandoned hotel way back in the woods. Spookily she was chained up and abandoned wearing a new winter parka and boots with a thermos beside her--as if her murderer was giving her a whisper of a chance at survival. Neither Delorme nor Cardinal can imagine where their investigation will lead: into a decades-old injustice committed in the high Arctic; into the swingers world inhabited by an ex-rock star who owns a pub in Algonquin Bay as well as private members clubs in Toronto and Ottawa; into the insecurity that afflicts Delorme the woman and the cop; and into the deep bond between Delorme and Cardinal which is at real risk of coming undone. In Until the Night Giles Blunt outdoes himself creating a masterpiece of crime fiction that will not only haunt his fans and readers but delight and amaze them too.