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Compelling and gripping Black Fly Season
I just finished my third read of "Black Fly Season." It's a novel that I enjoy reading now and then, and I thought it was time to let others know about this fantastically, well-written crime thriller. Blunt does an excellent job of evoking an atmosphere of the locale of the story (Algonquin Bay, Ontario). His characters are well defined. I found his use of forensics in the story fascinating, e.g., getting clues from entomological research. The villain, in addition to being a drug dealer, practices Palo Mayombe, a form of voodoo/black magic that involves human sacrifice, and homicide detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme race against time to stop the murders. In the meantime, Cardinal is facing his own personal fears and heartbreak. There are twists and turns in "Black Fly Season" that will keep the pages quickly turning. This is the third novel in the John Cardinal series, but it stands alone on its own merit if you haven't read the other two books. "Black Fly Season" is compelling and gripping. This is no wishy-washy crime novel. Giles Blunt is a superior crime novelist.
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great time for police procedural fans
Near Algonquin Bay, Canada, the patrons are enjoying their drinks at World Tavern when the woman entered. Black fly bites were all over her body and she flitters from one table to the next. When locals try to pick her up starting with asking her name, she says she has no idea. They call her ¿Red¿ for obvious reasons. However, another patron local cop Jerry Commando takes the baffled woman to City Hospital. --- Doctors quickly realize the cause of her perplexity and amnesia has nothing to do with frying her brain on drugs; instead the docile woman was shot in the head as there is a bullet lodged in her brain; she does not remember the incident. Homicide Detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme head the investigation that includes keeping Red safe because both law enforcement officials believes that the person who injured her shot to kill and once he or she learns she still lives will be back to correct their mistake.--- The return of Cardinal and Delorme (see THE DELICATE STORM AND FORTY WORDS FOR SORROW) bluntly means a great time for police procedural fans. Their latest entry is as terrific as usual starting from the moment Red enters the remote local¿s bar, through a medical procedure to remove the bullet, and continuing as the two detectives know that she is a target, but to insure her safety may have to us her as bait. The motive for the attempted killing will chill the audience much more than winter in Ontario as it is based on real cult murders on the Mexican-United States border. BLACK FLY SEASON is a complex chiller that will shake the audience with its art imitates life premise.--- Harriet Klausner
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