Links List

1. Autobiography: http://www.gilesblunt.com/bio.html


2. Biography: http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=642


3. Book Review:http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780770428730&view=print


4. Book Review:http://trashotron.com/agony/reviews/2003/blunt-40_words_for_sorrow.htm


5. Interview with the authour (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9LBg9lzha0


6: Interview with the authour (text): http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/08/21/111546.php


7: Information about North Bay Ontario (the setting): http://www.city.north-bay.on.ca/


8: Bibliography of novels: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/giles-blunt/


9: Award that Giles Blunt has been nominated for 2 times: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/giles-blunt/

10: The Crime Writers Association: http://www.thecwa.co.uk/

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Response #4

The final section of the book that I am writing about is the ending. After Eric dies Cardinal and Delorme think that the case has been closed. However little do they know there were infact two killers, one of which is still out there. After Cardinals address was released in a newspaper article Eddie shows up at Cardinals house, supposedly just having a car accident. She is infact there to do away with Cardinal, the man who did away with her one true love, Eric. After playing damsel in distress she reveals herself as the other killer, and attempts to murder Cardinal. Luckly for him, he called 911 to get her an ambulance, and the police and ambulance arrive just in time for Delorme to save Cardinals life. Eddie had show Cardinal in the leg and was standing over him, ready to do away with him for good, when Delorme shoots Eddie in the back.

This is a significant part not only because it is the end of the novel but also because you get a real insight into who Detective Lise Delorme really is. After she shoots a woman she is incredibly shook up, she also had a rock solid exterior, and this is where you get to see who she really is. The fact that she saved Cardinals life however over rides her feelings of guilt for shooting Eddie. A friendship between Cardinal and Delorme never quite happened throughout the rest of the novel because of the fact that Detective Delorme was also working in Special Investigations and was investigating Cardinal. He was suspected of stealing money because "how could a police detective in a small town, with a wife in the hosptial afford to send his daughter to Hardvard?". After Cardinal clears his name their friendship can really begin.

Response #3

The third part of the novel I would like to focus on is the rescue of Keith London. This is what you could call the climax of the novel. After intense investigation Cardinal and Delorme believe that the old pump house. They go with a full squad of fully armed officers because they not only found clues in Erics house saying where he was going to kill Keith London, but there was also a list of objects that he was bringing with him, including a crowbar, scissors, scalples, and many other violent objects. The sneak their way into the pumphouse but not before Eric catches on that they are there. He flees and Cardinal follows, in the end there is a confrontation in the van Eric had stolen and it ends up going through the ice, taking Eric, and almost taking Detective Cardinal down with it. This is obviously a significant part because it is the climactic event and everything else that happens after it is part of the falling action.