The Delicate Storm
The second book in Cardinal mystery series received the 2004 Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. It was nominated for the Dashiell Hammett, the Macavity, and the Anthony, in addition to the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award.
2003, Random House Canada
2003, Harper Collins UK
2003, Putnam Publishing Group US
Plot Synopsis
When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eaten by bears, Detective John Cardinal is assigned to 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, 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 the Canadian intelligence service.
Selected Reviews
"Blunt writes with the flashing grace of an ice skater skimming over a frozen pond." — New York Times Book Review
"It's almost a crime how beautiful Blunt's prose is." — Quill & Quire
"The pace of Blunt's complex plot develops with increasing intensity, permeated by the lethal eerie winter. . . . a gripping thriller." — The Oxford Times
"Confirms his early promise as the leading Canadian crime writer of his generation." — Birmingham Post
"The Delicate Storm is crime fiction at its best. It's also literature." — Irish Examiner
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