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This was a moving, atmospheric read. Your basic detective story about catching a serial killer, with a somewhat cliche protagonist - the tortured, brilliant, tenacious detective who, despite his personal demons, pursues a case relentlessly, disregarding the rules and alienating his family in the process. (Seriously, how many times have we seen this stereotypical character presented as if he were Interesting and New?)

And yet, the writing is engaging, the characterizations of the killers especially chilling and detailed, and the climax of the novel really very satisfying.

I'd say, this is not great literature, but if you are looking for an unusually intelligent detective novel to read at the beach (big plus, it takes place during a frozen Canadian winter), you will enjoy this book.


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Forty Words for Sorrow A Thriller Giles Blunt Books Reviews

I skipped whole chapters because they were just too dark for me -- serial killers torturing victims.

On the other hand, I read the book straight through (aside from those chapters), because although you knew halfway through the book "who-done-it," there was a life at stake and you wondered if the police would figure it out in time. There was a wonderful sense of place -- northern Ontario in the winter -- that helped compensate for other problems with this book.

The problems included a secondary plot that was probably unnecessary and just detracted from the story -- soul-searching over right and wrong was a significant part of this book.

A more serious problem involved the female characters. I was uneasy about how women were portrayed in this book clueless daughter who should have been suspicious; mentally ill wife (not clear why her illness was not being controlled by medications); female cop apparently without much in the way of conscience or loyalty; ugly loser willing to do anything for her man; grannie in bed, whiny, demanding, and neglected... I think perhaps that the author believed he was portraying at least some of the women positively, but I would have to question that. Of course, few characters in this book come off very well, so it might be argued that the men in this book are just as bad. I think we're supposed to like the flawed hero-detective, but this character didn't make up for the problems with the women in this book. I think sometimes men have trouble writing about women, and that may have been the problem -- or subliminal misogyny.

I expect I'll be reading more in the series, however.
Excellent. Enjoyed this novel almost as well as my first pick inspector gamache series by Louise Penney.
terrifying more please.
Very good book...watched season 1 of "Cardinal" on Hulu based on this book. Both are very good.
This is a masterpiece by an extremely talented author. From the first to the last page he takes us on a tension/pathos-filled journey in the wilds of northern Ontario. The Algonquin Bay P.D. that Blunt gives us is as riven with fantastic characters as Wambaugh's LAPD or other fictional P.D.'s of note. John Cardinal and Lise Delorme, to my mind, are wonderful, strong, three-D characters who drive this thriller at warp speed. All the characters, good and bad, are very well-developed and the plot is realistic, credible and unfolds at just the right pace. I've only read one other Blunt book, but this is one of the best thrillers I've read in a long time.
These books read like a HBO series or at least how a HBO series would have read if they had HBO in the '60s. Nevertheless, the plot moves along while you feel the bit of the cold and hear the crunch of the gravel on the snow covered roadway. Warm and cossy winter retreats counterpointed with cold foot work. Did I leave out, hjinx by the RCMP? Yeah, that too.
I read this book when it first came out -- the first in what would become a series about Canadian police detective John Cardinal who, in this book, has been investigating a missing-girl case for almost half a year. And then the teenage girl's body is found in an abandoned mine shaft. This book, with its details of torture, and its random chapters told from the point of view of the killer, is not easy to stomach. But the plot is good, the writing is strong, and the characters are, each in their own way, determined. After reading this book I went on to read others in the John Cardinal series, in the order they were written, and I was not disappointed.
This was a moving, atmospheric read. Your basic detective story about catching a serial killer, with a somewhat cliche protagonist - the tortured, brilliant, tenacious detective who, despite his personal demons, pursues a case relentlessly, disregarding the rules and alienating his family in the process. (Seriously, how many times have we seen this stereotypical character presented as if he were Interesting and New?)

And yet, the writing is engaging, the characterizations of the killers especially chilling and detailed, and the climax of the novel really very satisfying.

I'd say, this is not great literature, but if you are looking for an unusually intelligent detective novel to read at the beach (big plus, it takes place during a frozen Canadian winter), you will enjoy this book.