Cape Diamond, Ron Corbett
Cape Diamond, Ron Corbett
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Cape Diamond

Author: Ron Corbett

Narrator: Graham Rowat

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/23/2018


Synopsis

Cape Diamond, the second book in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery series, is atmospheric and action-packed. Set near the Northern Divide - as was the first installment, Edgar Award nominee (Best Paperback Original), Ragged Lake - the book opens with Yakabuski called to investigate a gruesome crime scene. A body has been left hanging from a schoolyard fence. On closer inspection, Yak finds a large diamond in the murder victim's mouth. Two criminal gangs - the Shiners and the Travellers - are fighting with each other, and Yakabuski turns to his father, a now-retired detective who has a long history with the gangs, for advice in the interrogation. Is the conflict over the murder of two men? The kidnapping of a little girl? Or, possibly, the diamond found in Augustus Morrissey's mouth? As if this weren't enough for one detective, a serial killer is taking a deadly road trip through the United States, heading towards the Northern Divide. Ron Corbett weaves the various strands together with ingenuity, making Cape Diamond a brooding, suspense-filled story of hubris, betrayal, and evil deeds; his writing is sparse and taut, compelling the reader to follow the action and gang conflict to a surprise ending.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on June 15, 2023

Mike Tyson said, “Everyone has a plan, till they get punched in the head”. Yakabuski knew who he needed to punch! The Shiners and the Travelers are criminal gangs of long-standing located in the towns and cities carved out of the boreal forest of northern Ontario and they are at war. When Augustus Mo......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on September 11, 2018

I would like to thank Netgalley and ECW Press for an advance copy of Cape Diamond, the second novel to feature Detective Frank Yakabuski, set in the town of Springfield in the Northern Divide, Canada. Frank is called out to a body hanging from a fence. To his dismay he identifies it as Augustus Morri......more

Goodreads review by Cassandra on August 19, 2020

This is the 2nd book in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery series. I had not read the first book, but I found that did not hinder my reading this book. Augustus Morrissey a gang leader, in Springfield, Ontario, is found handing from a fence with an uncut diamond in this mouth. Our protagonist, Frank is cal......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on September 14, 2018

Cape Diamond is a thrilling murder mystery that follows Detective Frank Yakabuski as he tries to untangle the web of lies and deception surrounding the murder of a local man. As more strange things begin to happen around town, Yak must decipher who and what is connected to the murders, kidnapping of......more

Goodreads review by Harold on October 24, 2018

Detective Frank Yakabuski is part of the police force of Springfield, a “hopped up mill town on the southern skirt of the Great Boreal Forest”, in the area known as the Northern Divide. Cape Diamond [ECW Press] is Yakabuski’s second adventure. This time he’s caught up in the brutal behavior of two c......more