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Forty Words for Sorrow
- Narrated by: James Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Publisher's Summary
Meanwhile, the brass have partnered him with Lisa Delorme, newly shifted to homicide from the Office of Special Investigations, and Cardinal can't help but wonder if she's been sent to keep tabs on him. A guilty conscience makes him think so.
Superbly paced, with fully-fleshed characters and utterly convincing police detail, Forty Words for Sorrow is also a novel of place that transcends the genre. Blunt puts us in a small Canadian town in the dead of winter and makes us feel the cold, then turns the cold into a metaphor for the destruction of young lives.
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- Melissa
- 2019-02-05
great book
I had a hard time with the first few chapters but it really picked up and i ended up finishing in a few days!
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- Allison Payne
- 2020-04-21
even better than the TV show
it felt a little slow in the beginning, but once you feel the tone and understand that it is setting a specific tension it goes swimmingly from there. can put it down. heading straight on to number two. The narrator is fantastic.
4 people found this helpful
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- Joe Gill
- 2019-08-23
Good book, bad accent.
A well written crime novel by Giles Blunt. His intricacies into Canadian culture really submerge you into the scene. The narrator was a good voice actor, with cool effects like radios and what not. My only gripe was the bad Canadian accent, stretched words that weren't necessary.
3 people found this helpful
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- Louise L Hoelscher
- 2012-10-27
Bad narration
How did the narrator detract from the book?
The narrator drove me crazy with his weird British/Scottish/Irish-like accents for Canadians. I have NEVER heard any Canadians speak with this kind of hybrid accent, and certainly not French Canadians. He would have done better keeping to one voice.
3 people found this helpful
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- L. Fullerton
- 2018-03-23
could not put it down
it was a very good read. An enjoyable easy read. Looking forward to reading more by this author
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- Derek
- 2017-05-30
Material outweighs average narration
The accents used were atrocious and not even close to the average speaking voice in the real North Bay.
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- Mary
- 2012-09-06
Canadian Cop a Winner
This was my first experience with this author and the novel is toward the end of the series. However, this didn't diminish my overall enjoyment of the plot, the characters and the pictures the author paints of a demented pair of killers in a cold and desolate landscape. A child is found buried in a slab of ice and from there, a grisly tale of madness and obsession unfolds. I'd be happy if Audible carried more of this series.
3 people found this helpful
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- Five Yards
- 2019-12-18
Mixed
I must not have read the description carefully, as I didn’t realize this book contained so much violence, which I have been trying to avoid. Sexual, sadomasochist violence & views inside the psyches of disturbed characters. I’m not quite ready for cozies, but I am not on board with this trend. The reader was wonderful & did several Canadian accents impressively.
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- wolb1122
- 2022-07-17
An excellent book
The story line was really good,, if a little gruesome. The matter was appalling at first, but didn't bother me at all as the. book continued. The writing was very engaging.. I loved listening him, I would love to hear some other words by this author, but there were no more on audible. Read this book.
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- CJ H.
- 2022-01-15
Great story, great characters!
Really enjoyed this story. The characters have layers and are believable. Absolutely recommend, have listened to it over and over.
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- cocobuttr
- 2021-12-15
Very engaging
I came to Forty Words for Sorrow after having watched the Cardinal TV series, and I found the story quite engaging and well written and the narration excellent. Daniels does an excellent job with conversation, much better than most I've listened to. Very natural, and he did a good job with the Canadian accent as well ("how aboat that? I've bean wondering"). I finished listening tonight and went to download the next Cardinal novel, and..... there aren't any. What the what? Audible! How can you leave us hanging like that?! Please please bring us the rest of the series!
Forty Words for Sorrow
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Black Fly Season
The Fields of Grief
Crime Machine
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