Crime Machine: 5 (The John Cardinal Crime Series) - Softcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"As distinctively Canadian as a Tom Thomson painting. . . . Crime Machine is as good as Canadian crime fiction gets." -- Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail

"A marvelously controlled writer, equally confident with characters and narrative."
-- Toronto Star

"Teeming with questions, possibilities and clever, enticing dialogue."
-- The Hamilton Spectator

"With Crime Machine, Blunt delivers another twisting page-turner that will keep readers up late at night, proving yet again that he can deftly toe the line between terror and intrigue."
-- CBC Books

"First-rate series. . . .You can hear the crunch of snowshoes through the bush, smell the buckshot mingling with fresh blood."
-- NOW (Toronto)

"Another winner from one of Canada's leading crime writers." --The Peterborough Examiner

From the Hardcover edition.

The long-awaited new instalment in the award-winning, bestselling John Cardinal mystery series.

A year after the death of his beloved and troubled wife, Catherine, John Cardinal has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold case files and platonic movie nights with friend and colleague Lise Delorme. The quiet of a snow-covered Algonquin Bay is shattered when the decapitated bodies of two people are found in a summer home on Trout Lake. The victims, visitors from Russia, are in Algonquin Bay attending the annual fur auction. This is by no means a routine murder investigation as Cardinal soon discovers, but a horrific piece of a very twisted puzzle. Blunt has, once again, given us a page-turning plot, a remarkable cast of characters and the comfort of John Cardinal at the helm.

From the Hardcover edition.