num_pages: 480
description: The author of Forty Words for Sorrow -winner of Britain's Silver Dagger Award-returns with a crime thriller challenging our most cherished that, in fiction, there is no such thing as the perfect crime.The small city of Algonquin Bay in northern A freak warm front has moved in, making it feel like April and rousing hungry bears from hibernation. So when Ivan Bergeron's dog brings him the chewed-off arm of a white male, it's assumed the victim met a natural if ugly end. Except, as it turns out, the owner of the arm was dead before the bears got to him.A second victim is a woman, apparently raped. There has to be a connection-two bodies abandoned in the woods within days of each other can't be a coincidence. Then police records reveal a long-unsolved murder with the same a woman found in the woods, seemingly raped. It isn't long before homicide detectives Delorme and Cardinal are led back thirty years to another unsolved murder, this one linked to Quebec terrorists. Logic suggests the Algonquin Bay murders are connected to this case. Evidence is less convincing. And somewhere, a murderer-smart and powerful-is walking free.
language: English
title: The Delicate Storm
titlecomplete: The Delicate Storm
characters: R.J. Kendall, Lise Delorme, Stan Cardinal, Ken Szelagy, John Lennon (The Delicate Storm), Mayor Wells, Reginald Rose, William Westly, Madeleine Ferrier, Daniel Lemoyne and Bernard Theroux, Lieutenant Jean-Paul Fougere and Corporal Robert Sauve, Catherine Cardinal, Geoff Mantis, Miriam Stead, Paul Laroche, Ed Beacom, Calvin Squier, Sergeant Raymond Ducharme, George Orwell (The Delicate Storm), Don Deckard, Miles Shackley, Ian McLeod, Nixon (The Reversal), Claude Hibert, Dr. Barnhouse, Leon Petrucci, Paul Stancek, Pierre Trudeau (The Delicate Storm), Detective Sergeant Chouinard, Raoul Duquette, Yves Grenelle, Thierry Ferand, Jerry Commanda, Craig Simmons, Ivan Bergeron, Robert Henry Hewitt, The Walcotts and Mrs. Potipher, Paul Bressard, Kelly Cardinal, Winter Cates, Malcolm Musgrave, Howard Matlock (#2), Vlatko Setevic, Howard Matlock (#1), Adonis Dyson, Kiki B., Flower, Arsenault and Collingwood, Simone Rouault, John Cardinal, Rene Levesque (The Delicate Storm), Stuart Hawthorne
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Murder Mystery, Canada, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Unfinished
ratings_count: 2731
places: Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec), Algonquin Bay, Ontario, New York City, New York, Toronto, Ontario
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: Harper