num_pages: 352
description: A stylish, atmospheric, psychological thriller which follows Giles Blunt's Silver Dagger Award winner, "Forty Words for Sorrow."A gruesome discovery in the wilderness north of 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 same 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 RCMP is called in, but it's the involvement of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service that arouses Cardinal's true 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. In this winter wonderland John Cardinal must hunt down and confront a killer.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: The Delicate Storm
titlecomplete: The Delicate Storm (John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Mystery, #2)
characters: Vlatko Setevic, Howard Matlock (#2), Sergeant Raymond Ducharme, Stan Cardinal, Paul Stancek, Kelly Cardinal, Catherine Cardinal, R.J. Kendall, Simone Rouault, Lise Delorme, John Lennon (The Delicate Storm), Malcolm Musgrave, Calvin Squier, Winter Cates, Paul Laroche, Miriam Stead, Yves Grenelle, Raoul Duquette, Ken Szelagy, William Westly, George Orwell (The Delicate Storm), Kiki B., Geoff Mantis, Reginald Rose, Ian McLeod, Pierre Trudeau (The Delicate Storm), Thierry Ferand, Dr. Barnhouse, Nixon (The Reversal), Leon Petrucci, Madeleine Ferrier, Don Deckard, Miles Shackley, Robert Henry Hewitt, Daniel Lemoyne and Bernard Theroux, Detective Sergeant Chouinard, The Walcotts and Mrs. Potipher, Claude Hibert, Ivan Bergeron, Paul Bressard, Flower, Arsenault and Collingwood, Mayor Wells, Rene Levesque (The Delicate Storm), Stuart Hawthorne, John Cardinal, Craig Simmons, Jerry Commanda, Lieutenant Jean-Paul Fougere and Corporal Robert Sauve, Ed Beacom, Howard Matlock (#1), Adonis Dyson
genres: Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Murder Mystery, Fiction, Suspense, Detective, Thriller, Unfinished, Crime, Canada
ratings_count: 2728
places: New York City, New York, Montreal, Quebec (Montréal, Québec), Algonquin Bay, Ontario, 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: Berkley