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Forty Words for Sorrow 

 (John Cardinal, book 1)

by

Giles Blunt

Forty Words for Sorrow

(The first book in the John Cardinal series)
(2000)
A novel by

Giles Blunt

Awards
Dagger Awards (nominee)
"One of the finest crime novels I've ever read."
Jonathan Kellerman


"Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes and a brutal deep-frozen landscape ... Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist."
Lee Child


 

When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. Haunted by a criminal secret in his own past and hounded by a special investigation into corruption on the force (conducted, he suspects, by his own partner), Cardinal is on the brink of losing his career - and his family. Then the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of killers. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the unthinkable. Time isn't only running out for him, but for another young victim, tied up in a basement wondering when and how his captors will kill him. Evoking the Canadian winter and the hearts of the killers and cops in icily realistic prose, Giles Blunt has produced a masterful crime novel that rivals the best of Martin Cruz Smith and introduces readers to a detective hero whose own human faults serve to fuel his unerring sense of justice.
 
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July 2001 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0007115717Title: Forty Words for Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 0-00-711571-7 / 978-0-00-711571-6 (UK edition)
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June 2001 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0399147527Title: Forty Words for Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 0-399-14752-7 / 978-0-399-14752-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Putnam Adult
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April 2001 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0007115733Title: Forty Words for Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 0-00-711573-3 / 978-0-00-711573-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins
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October 2000 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0679310576Title: Forty Words for Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 0-679-31057-6 / 978-0-679-31057-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House Canada
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2000 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1845058097Title: Forty Words for Sorrow Large Print
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 1-84505-809-7 (UK edition)
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Paperback Editions

June 2005 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0425206920Title: Forty Words for Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 0-425-20692-0 / 978-0-425-20692-8 (USA edition)
Publisher: Berkley Trade
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June 2002 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0770428738Title: Forty Words for Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 0-7704-2873-8 / 978-0-7704-2873-0 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
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March 2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0425185168Title: Forty Words for Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 0-425-18516-8 / 978-0-425-18516-2 (USA edition)
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
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January 2002 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0007115776Title: Forty Words for Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 0-00-711577-6 / 978-0-00-711577-8 (UK edition)
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June 2001 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0679311459Title: Forty Words for Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 0-679-31145-9 / 978-0-679-31145-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage Canada
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June 2004 : MP3 CD
Cover of ISBN: 1593353685Title: Forty Words For Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 1-59335-368-5 / 9781593353681 (USA edition)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Lib Edn (L)
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November 2002 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 1587885883Title: Forty Words for Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 1-58788-588-3 / 9781587885884 (USA edition)
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June 2001 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 1587885875Title: Forty Words for Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 1-58788-587-5 / 9781587885877 (USA edition)
Publisher: Nova Audio Books
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Cover of ISBN: 1593350384Title: Forty Words For Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
ISBN: 1-59335-038-4 / 9781593350383 (USA edition)
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March 2007 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B000OIZV7KTitle: Forty Words for Sorrow
Author(s): Giles Blunt
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