By the Time You Read This (John Cardinal 4)

✍ Scribed by Blunt, Giles

• Book ID: 108117402
• Publisher: Random House of Canada
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 213 KB
• Series: John Cardinal 4
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780770428730

✦ Synopsis

The Planet Grief. An incalculable number of light years from the warmth of the sun. When the rain falls, it falls in droplets of grief, and when the light shines, it is in waves and particles of grief. From whatever direction the wind blows--south, east, north or west-- it blows cinders of grief before it. Grief stings your eyes and sucks the breath from your lungs. No oxygen on this planet, no nitrogen; the atmosphere is composed entirely of grief.[By the Time You Read This , page 37]
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_Catherine Cardinal, wife of Sergeant John Cardinal, is dead. Ruled a suicide, it comes as no real surprise to those who knew her. Catherine had suffered from manic depression for over twenty years. Long stints of hospitalization were followed by healthy periods permeated by worry and anxiousness that everything would once again disintegrate. Her last hospital stay had been over a year ago. Catherine had been finding peace and fulfillment in her photography and taking...