This Giles Blunt crime fiction thriller starring Canadian detective John Cardinal (Black Fly Season, The Delicate Storm, et al.) is an intensely heartrending tale of sorrow and loss that revolves around two very different cases: one involving the suicide of Cardinal's wife, Catherine, who had battled manic-depression for years; and the other dealing with a pedophile who, after apparently posting hundreds of sexually explicit photos on the Internet, has been traced to northern Ontario.