Until the Night
Pages
320
Rating
3.96
Year
2012
Description
It's not unusual for John Cardinal to be hauled out of a warm bed on a cold night in Algonquin Bay, Canada to investigate a murder.
At first this newly-dead body sprawled in a motel parking lot looks run of the mill; the corpse has a big boot print on his neck, and the likely suspect is his lover's outraged husband. But the lover has gone missing. And then Lise Delorme locates another missing woman, a senator's wife from Ottawa, in the ruins of an abandoned hotel. 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 chance at survival. Spooky.
Neither detective can imagine that their investigation will delve into:
- a decades-old injustice committed in the high Arctic,
- a swingers' world run by an ex-rock star who owns a pub in Algonquin Bay and private member clubs in Toronto and Ottawa,
- the insecurity that afflicts Delorme as a woman and a cop, and,
- the deep bond between Delorme and Cardinal which is at risk of coming undone.
With 'Until the Night' Giles Blunt outdoes himself, creating a masterpiece of crime fiction that will not only haunt his fans and readers, but delight them too.
Librarian's note: there are six novels in the author's John Cardinal series. They are: 1. Forty Words for Sorrow (2000), 2. The Delicate Storm (2003), 3. Blackfly Season (2005), 4. The Fields of Grief (2006), 5. Crime Machine (2010), and 6. Until the Night (2012).
At first this newly-dead body sprawled in a motel parking lot looks run of the mill; the corpse has a big boot print on his neck, and the likely suspect is his lover's outraged husband. But the lover has gone missing. And then Lise Delorme locates another missing woman, a senator's wife from Ottawa, in the ruins of an abandoned hotel. 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 chance at survival. Spooky.
Neither detective can imagine that their investigation will delve into:
- a decades-old injustice committed in the high Arctic,
- a swingers' world run by an ex-rock star who owns a pub in Algonquin Bay and private member clubs in Toronto and Ottawa,
- the insecurity that afflicts Delorme as a woman and a cop, and,
- the deep bond between Delorme and Cardinal which is at risk of coming undone.
With 'Until the Night' Giles Blunt outdoes himself, creating a masterpiece of crime fiction that will not only haunt his fans and readers, but delight them too.
Librarian's note: there are six novels in the author's John Cardinal series. They are: 1. Forty Words for Sorrow (2000), 2. The Delicate Storm (2003), 3. Blackfly Season (2005), 4. The Fields of Grief (2006), 5. Crime Machine (2010), and 6. Until the Night (2012).