Synopses & Reviews
Winner of Britain's Silver Dagger and Canada's Arthur Ellis awards, shortlisted for Bouchercon's Hammett, Anthony, and Macavity prizes, Giles Blunt returns with this third intensely disturbing crime novel.
When a beautiful young woman stumbles into a rough Algonquin Bay tavern covered in black fly bites, bits of leaves stuck in her curly red hair, the bartender knows she is either dumb or high. No one in Algonquin Bay goes out unprotected in black fly season.
"Red," as the local cops come to call her, is neither, but it takes a full examination to discover that her woozy behavior isn't due to drugs or diminished mental capacity. Red has a bullet in her brain. And no memory of how it got there or who she is.
If homicide detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme haven't a clue to her identity, they do know she is in mortal danger. Someone tried to kill her. Someone thought she was dead. Someone will try again if word leaks out she is not.
Synopsis
A beautiful young woman stumbles into a rough Algonquin Bay tavern covered in black fly bites and bits of leaves stuck in her hair. A full examination reveals that her woozy behavior isn't due to drugs or diminished mental capacity. She has a bullet in her brain and no memory of how it got there or who she is.
Synopsis
A young woman stumbles into a rough Algonquin Bay tavern covered in black fly bites, with a bullet in her brain, and no memory. Homicide detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delmore know someone left her for dead. And if word gets out she's alive, someone will try again.
About the Author
Giles Blunt wrote for television in New York City before returning to Toronto three years ago. He is the author of Forty Words for Sorrow and The Delicate Storm.