When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eaten by bears in the woods near Algonquin Bay, Detective John Cardinal is assigned to the case. Usually his small-town cases practically solve themselves, but not only does he not have a single lead this time, but both the RCMP and CSIS get involved. Then a well-respected woman is found frozen under a glaze of ice, and Cardinal realizes that the two very different murders might well be linked.
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