A chilling mystery for a summer day

Giles Blunt-- how British! Well, not exactly. He was raised by Very British parents in North Bay, Ontario, and now lives in New York. He has changed the name of North Bay, but otherwise not changed much about a small city in our near north. The winter weather is a huge factor in the story, and nearly a character itself.
 Forty words for sorrow is structured as a typical police procedural murder mystery; it is a well-written one. This is the first of six novels with the same setting and characters, and I'm looking forward to reading more of them. Blunt's experience as a film and TV writer is evident in his descriptions of scenes. In fact, this mystery series is likely to become a TV series, with Blunt as one of the writers.