John Farrow

Emile Cinq-Mars

1 - City of Ice (May-1999)
2 - Ice Lake (Feb-2001)
3 - The Storm Murders (Jun-2015)
4 - Seven Days Dead (May-2016)
5 - Perish the Day (May-2017)

Storm Murders Trilogy

1 - The Storm Murders (Jun-2015)
2 - Seven Days Dead (May-2016)
3 - Perish the Day (May-2017)

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  City of Ice
  

  • May-1999
  • / Suspense
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  Emile Cinq-Mars - 1
  

  A college kid in a Santa Claus suit is tortured, murdered, and left hanging from a meat hook on Christmas Eve--a gift intended for one particular cop.
          
  Reminiscent of Smilla's Sense of Snow, this gripping debut thriller set in ...

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  Ice Lake
  

  • Feb-2001
  • / Suspense
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  Emile Cinq-Mars - 2
  

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  The Storm Murders
  

  • Jun-2015
  • / Police Procedural
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  Emile Cinq-Mars - 3
  Storm Murders Trilogy - 1
  

  On the day after a massive blizzard, two policemen are called to an isolated farm house sitting all by itself in the middle of a pristine snow-blanketed field. Inside the lonely abode are two dead people. But there are no tracks in the snow leading e...

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  Seven Days Dead
  

  • May-2016
  • / Mystery
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  Emile Cinq-Mars - 4
  Storm Murders Trilogy - 2
  

  During an epic storm in the Gulf of Maine a lone woman races--first by car, then by a life-threatening sea crossing--to the island of Grand Manan. Her father is dying―will she make it in time? Others also venture out into the maelstrom that nigh...

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  Perish the Day
  

  • May-2017
  • / Police Procedural
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  Emile Cinq-Mars - 5
  Storm Murders Trilogy - 3
  

  Perish the Day is a riveting new mystery from John Farrow, an author who "brings a literary fiction writer's sensitivity to nuance and feel for landscape to this fine, character-rich thriller with a bang-up finish" (Booklist). A co-ed ...

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  Ball Park
  

  • Nov-2019
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Getting inside is easy; the stress comes in getting out clean. A case of breaking and entering escalates after Émile Cinq-Mars transfers from the Night Patrol. Montreal, 1975. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol -- th...

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  Roar Back
  

  • May-2020
  • / Historical
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  "Remarkable stuff. Fans of Bill James' Harpur and Iles saga of cops and robbers are in for quite a treat" - Kirkus Reviews Starred ReviewSergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars fails with a task set to him by his former captain and the consequences look ...

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  Lady Jail
  

  • Feb-2021
  • / Historical Mystery
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  Welcome to Lady Jail: a nest of killers, and not all of them are getting out alive . . . 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 f...

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  A Patient Death
  

  • May-2023
  • / General Fiction
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  In John Farrow’s riveting 10th novel featuring his iconic detective É mile Cinq-Mars, an investigation into a peculiar rash of deaths, in which the elderly sitting up straight suddenly “pop off,” lays bare the roots and intrica...

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  Bright Shining As the Sun
  

  • Feb-2025
  • / General Fiction
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  The legendary detective Émile Cinq-Mars must unravel a conflagration of events triggered by a series of murders involving a triple gangland homicide that goes down at a bikers’ “bank” where an alleged killer, wounded and in c...

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