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Black fly season / Giles Blunt.
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- ISBN: 0679312439 (hc)
- Physical Description: 326 p.
- Publisher: Toronto : Random House Canada, c2005.
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| Subject: | Murder > Fiction Mystery fiction |
| Genre: | Detective and mystery stories |
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The highly anticipated new novel in the bestselling John Cardinal series from Giles Blunt, winner of the Arthur Ellis Award and the British Crime Writersâ Macallan Silver Dagger Award.
Itâs summer in Algonquin Bay, and the blackflies are driving people a little mad. John Cardinal and Lise Delorme have a different sort of mystery on their hands: a young woman has wandered bug-bitten out of the bush and canât remember her name or where she comes from. The reason? She has been shot in the head with a small-calibre weapon and the bullet is lodged in her brain.
Then a body turns up in a cave in the woods, the corpse of one Wombat Guthrie, a biker/drug dealer whose head, hands and feet have been removed but whose tattoos are unmistakable. At first the two cases could not seem further apart. But subsequent clues, and another brutal murder, seem to connect both of them to the fortunes of a small, even amateurish, drug gang that has recently hit the big time under the leadership of an Ojibwa shaman named Red Bear.
With the help of a neuropsychologist, the mysterious young woman regains some of her memory. But try as he might, Cardinal just canât tie all these threads together. He begins to suspect that the innocent young woman may not be so innocent after all, and that her recently returned âmemoriesâ may not be the whole truth. And Red Bear may not be what he seems, either. Is he really a native shaman or is he just another drug dealer with an appetite for savage murder?
Cardinal was thinking about the young woman with no memory. Those green eyes looked so innocent, her whole manner was so benign â it was hard to imagine anyone wanting to kill her. Then again, with a head injury like that, who knew what her previous personality may have been? For all Cardinal knew, she could be Bitch Incarnate. The only thing he was sure of: with no home and no memory, she must be the loneliest woman on Earth, and he wanted to find the person who had done that to her.
âexcerpt from Blackfly Season
