description: Stylish, atmospheric psychological thriller following on from the Silver Dagger Award winner, Forty Words for Sorrow. A gruesome discovery in the wilderness above Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote cabin that has served as an abattoir for a cold-blooded killer! But the woods hide other horrors and soon a second body is discovered, naked and shrouded in ice. When one of the victims is identified as an American the Mounties have to be called in, but it's the Canadian Secret Service that arouses the most mistrust. Is their interference due to a suspected terrorist link, or is there something even more sinister behind it? With Northern Ontario in the grip of an ice storm of once-in-a-hundred years severity, the woods take on a glittering, lethal beauty. And in this winter wonderland John Cardinal must hunt down and confront a killer.
language: English
title: The Delicate Storm
titlecomplete: The Delicate Storm
characters: George Orwell (The Delicate Storm), Lise Delorme, Robert Henry Hewitt, Miriam Stead, The Walcotts and Mrs. Potipher, Simone Rouault, Adonis Dyson, Paul Bressard, Reginald Rose, Kelly Cardinal, Craig Simmons, Lieutenant Jean-Paul Fougere and Corporal Robert Sauve, Calvin Squier, Winter Cates, Thierry Ferand, Ed Beacom, Claude Hibert, Leon Petrucci, Mayor Wells, Stuart Hawthorne, Ian McLeod, Ken Szelagy, Kiki B., Miles Shackley, Rene Levesque (The Delicate Storm), William Westly, Howard Matlock (#1), R.J. Kendall, Catherine Cardinal, Stan Cardinal, Paul Stancek, Dr. Barnhouse, John Cardinal, Geoff Mantis, Don Deckard, Pierre Trudeau (The Delicate Storm), Daniel Lemoyne and Bernard Theroux, Vlatko Setevic, Detective Sergeant Chouinard, Jerry Commanda, Ivan Bergeron, John Lennon (The Delicate Storm), Paul Laroche, Sergeant Raymond Ducharme, Nixon (The Reversal), Yves Grenelle, Malcolm Musgrave, Howard Matlock (#2), Raoul Duquette, Madeleine Ferrier, Flower, Arsenault and Collingwood
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Canada, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Unfinished, Murder Mystery, Suspense
ratings_count: 2731
places: Toronto, Ontario, Algonquin Bay, Ontario, Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec), New York City, New York
series: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Mystery
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Mystery Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Hammett Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Arthur Ellis Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: HarperCollins (UK)