Giles Blunt: Black Fly Season (USA 2009)

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Only someone dumb or high would go out unprotected during Algonquin Bay's black fly season. But when a beautiful young woman stumbles into a tavern covered in bites, the local cops discover she is neither. The woman has a bullet in her brain -- and no memory of how it happened or who she is. Homicide detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme know someone left her for dead. And if word gets out that she isn't, someone will try again...

Giles Blunt: Black Fly Season. A Novel. Berkley Books, ISBN: 0425233715 (September, 2009), 384 p., $16.00.

Giles Blunt: Black Fly Season (USA 2006)

From the Publisher:
Only someone dumb or high would go out unprotected during Algonquin Bay's black fly season. But when a beautiful young woman stumbles into a tavern covered in bites, the local cops discover she is neither. The woman has a bullet in her brain -- and no memory of how it happened or who she is. Homicide detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme know someone left her for dead. And if word gets out that she isn't, someone will try again...

Giles Blunt: Black Fly Season. A Novel. Berkley Books, ISBN: 0425209571 (May, 2006), 384 p., $7.99.

Giles Blunt: Black Fly Season (UK 2005)

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Sacrifice for the spirits or brutal murder?
Someone in Algonquin Bay is out for blood. A young woman has been shot in the head. She can't remember why anyone wants to hurt her, or even her own name. Then a body turns up - Wombat Guthrie, biker and drug dealer, has taken his last ride. It's unlikely that the two cases are linked, but detectives Cardinal and Delorme keep encountering a name - 'Red Bear'. A Chippewa shaman, Red Bear has recently moved into drugs and has enlisted the help of the spirit world. In return the 'spirits' demand sacrifice - human sacrifice.

As the woman regains her memory, Cardinal suspects that she may not be as innocent as she appears. And what of Red Bear? Really a shaman? Or just another dealer with an appetite for murder?

The truth must be found before the spirits claim another sacrifice...

Giles Blunt: Black Fly Season. When the dead are being used to trap the living... HarperCollins, ISBN: 0007151365 (November, 2005), 486 p., £6.99.

Giles Blunt: Black Fly Season (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
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.

Giles Blunt: Black Fly Season. Marian Wood / Putnam's, ISBN: 0399152555 (June, 2005), 339 p., $25.95.

Giles Blunt: Black Fly Season (UK 2005)

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The third atmospheric psychological thriller featuring detectives Cardinal and Delorme, from the award-winning author of Forty Words for Sorrow.
It's early summer in Algonquin Bay and the black flies aren't the only ones out for blood. Someone is trying to kill a young red-haired woman, but after being shot in the head with a small-calibre weapon she cannot remember her own name or where she's from, let alone why anyone would want to hurt her. Then a body turns up, horribly mutilated. Wombat Guthrie, biker and drug dealer, has taken his last ride.

It seems inconceivable that the two cases could be linked, but as detectives Cardinal and Delorme pursue their invesigations the name 'Red Bear' keeps cropping up. An Iroquois shaman, Red Bear has recently moved into the drug trade, enlisting the aid of the spirit world to direct his followers to rival gangs' drugs and money. In return, the 'spirits' demand sacrifice -- human sacrifice. As the mysterious young woman slowly regains her memory, Cardinal begins to suspect that she may not be so innocent after all, and that her recovered 'memories' may not be the whole truth. And what of Red Bear? Is he really an Iroquois? Really a shaman? Or just another drug dealer with an appetite for brutal murder?

Somehow Cardinal and Delorme must find the answers before the spirits claim another sacrifice.

Giles Blunt: Black Fly Season. When the dead are being used to trap the living... HarperCollins, ISBN: 0007151349 (January, 2005), 372 p., £18.99.