The Delicate Storm

Book 2 in the John Cardinal series When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eatenby bears near Algonquin Bay, Detective John Cardinal is assigned to thecase. Without a solid lead, and with the RCMP and CSIS involved,Cardinal is forced to band together with his nemesis, Sergeant MalcolmMusgrave, to untangle the deceit and cover-ups surrounding the case. Thena well-respected local woman is found frozen under a glaze of ice in thewoods, and Cardinal realizes that the two very different murders may well beconnected. Working closely with his trusted colleague, Detective Lise Delorme, to whomhe feels a dangerous attraction, Cardinal fights his emotions and a relentless icestorm only to uncover a knot of lies and conspiracies that go back more thanthirty years and extend to the highest reaches of Canadian intelligence. The body parts add up to one Miles Shakeley, a CIA operative in Montreal in 1970, and Cardinal becomes suspicious that CSIS is somehow involved. Meanwhile, the case of a missing woman in Algonquin Bay is occupying Delorme. When the body of Dr. Winter Cates is uncovered in a glaze of ice, Delorme is convinced that a jealous boyfriend is to blame. But when blood evidence bonds Cardinal and Delorme’s cases, they are back together and travelling to Montreal to track down tenuous leads. And it is there that they discover that their cases reach far beyond the town limits of Algonquin Bay. Untangling the secrets of a government in crisis, cover-ups, and the meddling of American intelligence agencies, they are eventually led back to where they started–and to a suspect who is untouchable.