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Giles Blunt: Forty Words for Sorrow (UK 2014) From the Publisher: 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. Then the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of killers. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the unthinkable. But time isn't only running out for him: there's also another young victim tied up in a basement wondering how and when he will die. Giles Blunt: Forty Words for Sorrow. HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780007322299 (January, 2014), eBook, 0.84 MB (ca. 432 p.), £2.99.
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Giles Blunt: Forty Words for Sorrow (UK 2011) From the Publisher: 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. Then the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of killers. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the unthinkable. But time isn't only running out for him: there's also another young victim tied up in a basement wondering how and when he will die. Giles Blunt: Forty Words for Sorrow. HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780007115778 (July, 2011), 425 p., £7.99.
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Giles Blunt: Forty Words for Sorrow (USA 2005) From the Publisher: Giles Blunt: Forty Words for Sorrow. Berkley Book, ISBN: 0425206920 (May, 2005), 355 p., $16.00.
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Giles Blunt: Forty Words for Sorrow (USA 2002) From the Publisher: Giles Blunt: Forty Words for Sorrow. Berkley Book, ISBN: 0425185168 (March, 2002), 368 p., $6.99.
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Giles Blunt: Forty Words for Sorrow (UK 2002) From the Publisher: Then the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of killers. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, Cardinal knows that time is running out -- not just for him but for the next victim, tied up in a basement, waiting to die. Giles Blunt: Forty Words for Sorrow. HarperCollins, ISBN: 0007115776 (January, 2002), 425 p., £5.99.
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Giles Blunt: Forty Words for Sorrow (USA 2001) From the Publisher: Katie Pine isn't the only youngster to have gone missing in the rural town of Algonquin Bay, and Cardinal, brought back to the homicide division after the discovery of her body, is now given the go-ahead to reopen the files on three other lost kids. Then another youth is reported missing, and as cardinal adds his name to the caseload, 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. Utterly convincing in its details of how cops work, brilliant in its portrayal of two monstrous sociopaths, tense and terrifying in its crosscuts, between the cops in pursuit and the killers toying with their latest victim, Forty Words for Sorrow 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. This is a novel that transcends its genre. Giles Blunt: Forty Words for Sorrow. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399147527 (June, 2001), 344 p., $24.95.
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