Now a major television series CARDINAL and the first book in the John Cardinal series. When
four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay the extensive police
investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up except Detective John Cardinal an
all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. Haunted by
a criminal secret in his own past and hounded by a special investigation into corruption on the
force Cardinal is on the brink of losing his career and his family. Then the mutilated body of
thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is
willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of
serial killers. The case as it unfolds proves eerily reminiscent of the Moors murders in
Britain as an unassuming young man and his belligerently loyal girlfriend scout young victims
for their macabre games. With the media the provincial police and his own department
questioning his every move Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the
unthinkable. Time isn't only running out for him but for another young victim tied up in a
basement wondering when and how his captors will kill him.
