num_pages: 425
description: Dark, atmospheric and terrifying psychological serial killer thriller set in a freezing Ontario winter, guaranteed to chill readers to the 'Forty Words for Sorrow is brilliant' Jonathan Kellerman 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 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 there's also another young victim tied up in a basement wondering how and when he will die.
language: English
title: Forty Words for Sorrow
titlecomplete: Forty Words for Sorrow
characters: R.J. Kendall, Lise Delorme, Kyle Corbett, Jack Fehrenbach, Dollard Langlois, Todd Currie, Dr. Gant, Ned Fellowes, Catherine Cardinal, Margaret Fogle, Ian McLeod, Dr. Barnhouse, Keith London, Katie Pine, Brian Fortier, Jerry Commanda, Carl Sutherland, Grace Legault, Arthur Wood, Eric Fraser and Edie Soames, Kelly Cardinal, Malcolm Musgrave, Billy LaBelle, Roger Gwynn, Adonis Dyson, Len Weisman, John Cardinal
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Canada, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Detective, Adult, Canadian Literature
ratings_count: 6422
places: Algonquin Bay, Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
series: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Mystery
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: CWA Silver Dagger
publisher: Harper Collins