Tasked with convincing a pastor that a prisoner shouldn't be paroled by his former captain, Sergeant Detective Émile Cinq-Mars fails. The consequences prove costly and it threatens to only be the beginning. An informant in the Montreal Mafia believes a gangland war is coming, and Cinq-Mars is at the heart of it.
Quinn Tanner is a thief who finds her getaway driver dead after her latest heist. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars's first assignment after switching from the Night Patrol to the day shift is the scene of Quinn's latest crime. With their paths set to cross and others hunting for her, she goes underground. Can Cinq-Mars find her before it's too late?
Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars is summoned to Quebec to investigate a murder in this locked-room mystery with a the victim is a criminal, and the suspects are already locked up . . .Quebec, 1994 . Fraud artist Abigail, the newest arrival at the Joliette Institution for Women, is struggling to adjust to the prison's communal quarters. Her fellow inmates only give out the bare bones of their crimes, and it's quite the roll call. Doi took a hatchet to her own daughter. Malka poisoned her husband. And that's just for starters. Abigail keeps her head down, does her best to make friends with the band of killers, tries to survive.But on an ordinary, quiet day, the extraordinary a prisoner is found face-down in a toilet stall, a strangulation wire around her neck. Trouble, Abigail realises, is ahead.Sergeant-Detective Emile Cinq-Mars is summoned from Montreal to investigate. He put Abigail away - and now she's the prime suspect. But other, darker, forces are interested in Abigail, and Emile interferes at his own peril. For as he'll soon discover, in Lady Jail, nothing is as it seems . . .
First in a series of Emile Cinq-Mars novels, City of Ice portrays Montreal as a schizoid landscape, delineated by language, the playground of Russian criminals and American spies and a tough place for a policeman.
When a corpse is found floating in a fishing hole cut into a frozen lake in Montreal, it appears at first to be a straightforward homicide. But the victim had shadowy connections to the pharmaceutical industry and, before long, brilliant, unorthodox detective Emile Cinq-Mars realises he has a far more complex case on his hands. As Cinq-Mars delves deeper, he uncovers a horrifying web of intrigue which extends far beyond ruthless scientists to the heart of the Mob, and has enmeshing beautiful Indian activist Lucy Gabriel, who has been innocently involved in illegal experiments on AIDS patients. Finding herself the target of a vendetta to destroy those who know too much, Lucy takes revenge with the native Indians. But Cinq-Mars knows it's now a race against time and that he must find her before it's too late. And can he solve the riddle of the death cocktails before his shadowy opponents sacrifice even more vulnerable and innocent men?
The book delves into the root causes of dysfunction in Washington, emphasizing the need for fundamental changes to restore hope and progress towards a more perfect union, as envisioned by the founders. It outlines immediate and long-term solutions for the current administration to implement, aiming to alter the perilous trajectory of the nation and the world. By addressing these critical issues, the author advocates for a transformative approach that can rejuvenate the country and its citizens' lives, steering them away from ongoing insecurity and stagnation.
