- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (7 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099282496
- ISBN-13: 978-0099282495
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 696,409 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Brilliant, unorthodox Montreal detective Emile Cinq Mars has a complex case on his hands when a corpse with a bullet in its neck is found floating in a fishing hole cut into the ice of a frozen lake. The victim had shadowy connections with the pharmaceutical industry, but that's just the start.
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A chilling thriller from the author of City of Ice. This is the second in the series of Emile Cinq-Mars novels: Cinq-Mars promises to be as popular as Kay Scarpetta or Tempe Brennan
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A tense thriller set in the icy wilds of Montreal, conspiracies that will have your head in a spin. The workings of pharmaceutical companies and the underworld mixed in a brew with a famous French Canadian Detective and a rebelious native Indian. The plot and the subplots keep you entertained throughout, even though Sergeant-Detective Cinqs-Mars can be a bit puzzling at times. To cut to the chase definetley worth investing in.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Following on in the vein of City of Ice, John Farrow beautifully captures the essence of Southwestern Quebec's many cultural, financial and linguinstic influences. A fine set of characters illustrate the many nuances and the finely balanced relationships between English, French, Natives and other Immigrant groups to those unfamiliar with the area.
Emile Cinq-Mars is a finely detailed character, at ease in the frozen landscape, and Farrow captures in him the changing nature of the Montreal area and it's rich prescence and history. The development of characters and plot is finely-paced and well-twisted and leads to a highly enjoyable book that is hard to put down.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Important Canadian Literary Thriller ----
17 July 2001
Format:Hardcover
Born and bred on the shores of Montreal, I cannot but feel the "draw" of these two beautiful "thrillers" so incredibly placed, and most certainly, incredibly characterized. What more is it that we are all to be looking for? As a former female English-Quebec-Canadian, and now a most integrated Chicagoan native, I have become to feel myself sadly alienated and foreign to all that goes on in that incredible "City of Ice". Who is John Farrow--OR--Trevor Ferguson that he may tantalize us such, and bring us home with this wonderful character that he has created. Can he! or does he exist !? - Cinq-Mars. I must tell you, that he is in my heart.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Saint Lucy, dupe or conspirator?
26 Sep 2002
Format:Hardcover
The ice-ridden locale is ideal for the cold hearts at play here. The lake is a frozen wasteland where danger and confusion, snow and ice, compete in masking and unmasking and masking again a criminal conspiracy that is tundra vast. What we don't know is this: Saint Lucy, dupe or conspirator?
Lucy's lover and partner in crime is found dead underneath an ice hole in a fishing shack on the lake, (but who is he, really?). Nefarious Québécois mobsters, police from competing jurisdictions, industrial spies, a femme fatale in Camille Choquette, who makes Lizzie Borden look a sweetheart, all skate in biotech espionage, psychopathic murder, Indian Warrior politics, crime syndicates, and the coldest hearted capitalism.
Ice Lake, by respected Canadian novelist Trevor Ferguson writing as John Farrow, follows City of Ice, which introduced the brilliant and charming, moody and maddening police detective Emil Cinq-Mars, a maverick in the Montreal PD, whose heart harkens back to an earlier time in the city's rough past when vice ruled and cops broke heads.
Cool off in the summer with this one.
11 Sep 2001
Format:Hardcover
The setting and the character of Cinq-Mars make this a better-than-your-average detective-mystery series. Cinq-Mars, a bit larger than life, loves his city of Montreal, which makes me want to visit someday, even without the chance of meeting the curmudgeonly detective.
The way the plot unfolds is different and interesting. Most of the characterizations are very good, with the exception of Camille, the reason why I gave this a 4 star rating. Read the book and decide for yourself - wouldn't want to give away anymore of the plot than the reader already gets in the first chapter!
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