Until the Night

by Giles Blunt,

This is the first book I have read by this author.  The story involves a police detective John Cardinal and his colleague Lise Delorme.  The story has two tales being told alternately, one is about a team of scientists floatiing on an ice island in the arctic.  One of the scientists goes beserk and starts to kill his colleagues, then the ice island splits into pieces and others of the team perish because of this.  Only two people survive, one scientist and the man who is having an affair with his wife (she perishes in the ordeal).

The other story line is about women being found frozen, some of them shackled, wearing some clothes that are not their own.

The lead police officer on the female deaths is a prima donna and seems to be off track, Cardinal and his partner each go off on their own investigations, she especially is violating police practices.

In the end it is Cardinal's and Delorme's efforts that solve the case.

I kept wondering how the two stories were connected.  It turns out that one of the survivors of the arctic incident, wrongfully convicted of murder by the testimony of the jealous husband, is wreaking revenge on people who spotted him and his lover but chose not to rescue them.

It was a very engaging story, I liked the characters but I can't believe the female officer would end up not getting reprimanded after her behaviour even though it did help to solve a crime.

I will read more books in this series.