Blackfly Season
Registered by gypsysmom of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on 6/26/2015
This book is in a Controlled Release!
This book is in a Controlled Release!
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I read the first book in this series, Forty Words for Sorrow, almost 3 years ago and at the time I vowed to read the remaining 5. Now I am finally keeping the vow. I got the good folks at Whodunit Bookstore to order me copies of all the books. Looking forward to getting into this series as I did for Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series last year. This is the third book in the series.
This book was recently made into a TV miniseries called Cardinal which just concluded on CTV. I decided to read the book in stages after each program was aired so that the plot would not be revealed until after I saw the TV version. As usual, I thought the written version was much better but the TV show is cinematically great.
Detective John Cardinal works for the Algonquin Bay Police Force. He and his partner, Lise Delorme, are called into the hospital when a red-haired young woman is brought in with a gunshot wound in her head. Due to brain damage caused by the bullet she cannot remember who she is or who shot her. She has no identification and there are no missing persons reports which match her description. As Cardinal and Delorme work on her case a mutilated dead body turns up. The victim was a member of a local biker gang who have a reputation for controlling the drug trade in the area. It seems that an outsider is infiltrating the drug trade and the biker was killed to obtain the gang's stash. But his hands, feet and head were removed and the cave where he was found was covered in strange hieroglyphics. The gunshot victim might be another casualty of the same interloper and Cardinal and Delorme are hoping that as she regains her memory she will tell them where to find him.
There are some substantial differences between the book and the TV show and I don't think that all the changes were necessary. If you have watched the TV show, do yourself a favour and read this book.
Detective John Cardinal works for the Algonquin Bay Police Force. He and his partner, Lise Delorme, are called into the hospital when a red-haired young woman is brought in with a gunshot wound in her head. Due to brain damage caused by the bullet she cannot remember who she is or who shot her. She has no identification and there are no missing persons reports which match her description. As Cardinal and Delorme work on her case a mutilated dead body turns up. The victim was a member of a local biker gang who have a reputation for controlling the drug trade in the area. It seems that an outsider is infiltrating the drug trade and the biker was killed to obtain the gang's stash. But his hands, feet and head were removed and the cave where he was found was covered in strange hieroglyphics. The gunshot victim might be another casualty of the same interloper and Cardinal and Delorme are hoping that as she regains her memory she will tell them where to find him.
There are some substantial differences between the book and the TV show and I don't think that all the changes were necessary. If you have watched the TV show, do yourself a favour and read this book.
I gave this book to my sister as she and her husband watched Cardinal on TV. I thought they might like to read the real thing.
When you find a BookCrossing book it is yours to do with what you like. You can read it and keep it or pass it on or if you don't think it is your kind of book pass it on to someone who might like it or release it in a spot for someone else to find like you just did. Whatever you choose it would be great if you could write a short note letting us know what new adventures the book is on.
When you find a BookCrossing book it is yours to do with what you like. You can read it and keep it or pass it on or if you don't think it is your kind of book pass it on to someone who might like it or release it in a spot for someone else to find like you just did. Whatever you choose it would be great if you could write a short note letting us know what new adventures the book is on.
