i#8230;there is nothing more still than a dead body, and no mistaking it for anything else. This one was naked, covered with a glaze of ice. Even the long black hair that fell in tendrils across her face was encased in ice. It was as if she were under a spell#8211;the victim of a jealous wizard, a w
The Delicate Storm
โ Scribed by Giles Blunt
- Publisher
- Random House of Canada
- Year
- 2004;2005
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 185 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
...there is nothing more still than a dead body, and no mistaking it for anything else. This one was naked, covered with a glaze of ice. Even the long black hair that fell in tendrils across her face was encased in ice. It was as if she were under a spell--the victim of a jealous wizard, a wicked witch.[The Delicate Storm , page 164]
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_**Algonquin Bay is wrapped in a thick blanket of fog; an eerie prophecy of weather on its way, or perhaps something more ominous. When a local man discovers a dismembered arm in his front yard, it seems that the long fingers of fog that strangle the city are also hiding a grisly secret. While at first the discovery is thought to be the work of ravenous bears, woken early from their long winter hibernation, the coroner later confirms that the victim was actually sawn into pieces rather torn. The case becomes even murkier when a local trapper confesses to cutting up the body and scattering the remains but claims to be...
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