num_pages: 448
description: According to detective John Cardinal, the truly diabolical thing about blackflies is their stealthy silence; there is no warning and no chance to make a pre-emptive strike to prevent a bite. Every year at the beginning of May, they take over Algonquin Bay in Ontario, Canada.This spring, the blackflies aren’t the only visitors. A self-proclaimed shaman and card-carrying member of the Chippewa First Nations has also arrived. Known as Red Bear, he has recruited three young men who share a history of drug use and living on the fringe.There's another mysterious visitor. At the World Tavern, the least reputable bar in town, OPP officer Jerry Commanda is enjoying his regular Friday night Diet Coke with a squeeze of lemon. He meets a young, red-haired woman who is unable to tell him her name, where she lives, or how she came to be there. It’s not until a hospital X-ray reveals a bullet lodged in her brain that the reason for her amnesia becomes clear. Detectives Cardinal and Delorme get the call.What do they find? Bikers, bizarre hieroglyphics, and a rising body count.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).
language: English
title: Blackfly Season
titlecomplete: Blackfly Season (John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Mystery, #3)
characters: Charles Baudelaire (Blackfly Season), The redhead (Blackfly Season), Red Bear, The Spice Girls (Blackfly Season), Kelly Cardinal, Catherine Cardinal, R.J. Kendall, Kevin Tait, Dr. Angus Chin, Lise Delorme, David Letterman (Jack & Jill), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (M is for Malice), Malcolm Musgrave, Len Weisman, Blaine Styles, Chingachgook (Blackfly Season), Edgar Allan Poe (Blackfly Season), Ken Szelagy, William Shakespeare (Blackfly Season), Ernest Hemingway (The Sanibel Sunset Detective), Dr. Schaff, Morris Tilley, Dr. Rayburn, Walter 'Wombat' Guthrie, Leon (Blackfly Season), Dr. Garth Paley, Steve Lasalle, William Butler Yeats (Blackfly Season), Martin Amis (Blackfly Season), Raymond Beltran and Uncle Victor, Cornelius Venn, Rod Milcher, Stephen P. Russell, Christine Nadeau, Alan Clegg, Leonard Cohen (Blackfly Season), Jasper Colin Crouch, Dr. Carl Jonas, Tonto, and Pedro Infante (Angel Eyes), Larry King (Manhattans & Murder), Detective Sergeant Chouinard, Frank Izzard, Flower, Arsenault and Collingwood, Elvis (The Two Sanibel Sunset Detectives), Bob Brackett, John Cardinal, Jerry Commanda, Dr. Michael Fortis, Arthur Rimbaud (Blackfly Season), Father Brebeuf (Blackfly Season), Kanga (Blackfly Season), Richard Ramirez, Caryl Chessman and Charles Manson, Helen Wasserstein, Tim Horton (Blackfly Season)
genres: Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Murder Mystery, Suspense, Novels, Detective, Thriller, Fiction, Canada, Crime
ratings_count: 2936
places: Algonquin Bay, Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
series: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Mystery
publisher: Seal Books