Black Fly Season

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The third atmospheric psychological thriller featuring detectives Cardinal and Delorme, from the award-winning author of FORTY WORDS FOR SORROW. Sacrifice for the spirits or brutal murder Someone in Algonquin Bay is out for blood. A young woman has been shot in the head. She can't remember why anyone wants to hurt her, or even her own name. Then a body turns up - Wombat Guthrie, biker and drug dealer, has taken his last ride. It's unlikely that the two cases are linked, but detectives Cardinal and Delorme keep encountering a name - 'Red Bear'. A Chippewa shaman, Red Bear has recently moved into drugs and has enlisted the help of the spirit world. In return the 'spirits' demand sacrifice - human sacrifice. As the woman regains her memory, Cardinal suspects that she may not be as innocent as she appears. And what of Red Bear Really a shaman Or just another dealer with an appetite for murder The truth must be found before the spirits claim another 'sacrifice'!

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Praise for Black Fly Season: 'Another well structured story with sharply drawn characters' Sunday Telegraph 'Great stuff, action all the way in a wonderfully drawn, impossibly remote location.' Irish Independent 'a first class crime novel' Publishing News Praise for Giles Blunt: 'Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist' Lee Child 'Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon.' Jonathan Kellerman 'Giles Blunt manages to inhabit the minds of killer, victim and investigator alike, a feat very few writers can manage' Independent

Author Bio

Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay Ontario, and now lives in Toronto. He has written scripts for Law & Order, Street Legal, and Night Heat. His first psychological thriller, Forty Words for Sorrow, which also features Detectives Cardinal and Delorme, won the 2001 Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger Award.