Giles Blunt
GILES BLUNT grew up in North Bay, Ontario. After spending over twenty years in New York City, he now lives in Toronto. Among other works, he is the author of the John Cardinal crime series, winning the British Crime Writers’ Macallan Silver Dagger for Forty Words for Sorrow, the debut novel in that series. The Delicate Storm won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and Blackfly Season was one of Margaret Cannon’s Best Mysteries of the Year. The fourth Cardinal, By the Time You Read This, became a national bestseller. His standalone crime novel, No Such Creature, was also picked as...
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Until the Night
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31436-3 (0-679-31436-9)
April 30, 2013 | $19.95
Written by Giles Blunt
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31436-3 (0-679-31436-9)
April 30, 2013 | $19.95
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It's not unusual for John Cardinal to be hauled out of a warm bed on a cold night in Algonquin Bay to investigate a murder. And at first this dead body, sprawled in the parking lot of Motel 17, looks pretty run of the mill: the corpse has a big bootprint...
John Cardinal Mysteries 3-Book Bundle
eBook | 954 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-345-81313-8 (0-345-81313-8)
December 4, 2012 | $19.99
When we first meet Detective John Cardinal in Forty Words for Sorrow he is haunted by a criminal secret in his own past and hounded by a special investigation into corruption on the force. Cardinal is on the brink of losing his career and his family, and his refusal to give...
Written by Giles Blunt
eBook | 954 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-345-81313-8 (0-345-81313-8)
December 4, 2012 | $19.99
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When we first meet Detective John Cardinal in Forty Words for Sorrow he is haunted by a criminal secret in his own past and hounded by a special investigation into corruption on the force. Cardinal is on the brink of losing his career and his family, and his refusal to give...
Until the Night
Hardcover | 320 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31435-6 (0-679-31435-0)
August 7, 2012 | $29.95
Written by Giles Blunt
Hardcover | 320 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31435-6 (0-679-31435-0)
August 7, 2012 | $29.95
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It's not unusual for John Cardinal to be hauled out of a warm bed on a cold night in Algonquin Bay to investigate a murder. And at first this dead body, sprawled in the parking lot of Motel 17, looks pretty run of the mill: the corpse has a big bootprint...
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Until the Night
eBook | 384 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-37594-0 (0-307-37594-3)
August 7, 2012 | $12.99
Written by Giles Blunt
eBook | 384 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-37594-0 (0-307-37594-3)
August 7, 2012 | $12.99
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It's not unusual for John Cardinal to be hauled out of a warm bed on a cold night in Algonquin Bay to investigate a murder. And at first this dead body, sprawled in the parking lot of Motel 17, looks pretty run of the mill: the corpse has a big bootprint...
Also available as a
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Crime Machine
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31434-9 (0-679-31434-2)
April 26, 2011 | $19.95
The long-awaited new instalment in the award-winning, bestselling John Cardinal mystery series.
A year after the death of his beloved and troubled wife, Catherine, John Cardinal has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold case files and platonic movie nights...
Written by Giles Blunt
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31434-9 (0-679-31434-2)
April 26, 2011 | $19.95
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The long-awaited new instalment in the award-winning, bestselling John Cardinal mystery series.
A year after the death of his beloved and troubled wife, Catherine, John Cardinal has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold case files and platonic movie nights...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Delicate Storm
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-36006-9 (0-307-36006-7)
April 26, 2011 | $19.95
…there is nothing more still than a dead body, and no mistaking it for anything else. This one was naked, covered with a glaze of ice. Even the long black hair that fell in tendrils across her face was encased in ice. It was as if she were under a spell–the...
Written by Giles Blunt
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-36006-9 (0-307-36006-7)
April 26, 2011 | $19.95
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…there is nothing more still than a dead body, and no mistaking it for anything else. This one was naked, covered with a glaze of ice. Even the long black hair that fell in tendrils across her face was encased in ice. It was as if she were under a spell–the...
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By the Time You Read This
eBook | pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-36852-2 (0-307-36852-1)
August 27, 2010 | $12.99
The Planet Grief. An incalculable number of light years from the warmth of the sun. When the rain falls, it falls in droplets of grief, and when the light shines, it is in waves and particles of grief. From whatever direction the wind blows–south, east, north or west– it blows cinders...
Written by Giles Blunt
eBook | pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-36852-2 (0-307-36852-1)
August 27, 2010 | $12.99
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The Planet Grief. An incalculable number of light years from the warmth of the sun. When the rain falls, it falls in droplets of grief, and when the light shines, it is in waves and particles of grief. From whatever direction the wind blows–south, east, north or west– it blows cinders...
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trade paperback.
The Delicate Storm
eBook | pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-36851-5 (0-307-36851-3)
August 27, 2010 | $12.99
…there is nothing more still than a dead body, and no mistaking it for anything else. This one was naked, covered with a glaze of ice. Even the long black hair that fell in tendrils across her face was encased in ice. It was as if she were under a spell–the...
Written by Giles Blunt
eBook | pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-36851-5 (0-307-36851-3)
August 27, 2010 | $12.99
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…there is nothing more still than a dead body, and no mistaking it for anything else. This one was naked, covered with a glaze of ice. Even the long black hair that fell in tendrils across her face was encased in ice. It was as if she were under a spell–the...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Crime Machine
eBook | 304 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-37593-3 (0-307-37593-5)
August 10, 2010 | $12.99
The long-awaited new instalment in the award-winning, bestselling John Cardinal mystery series.
A year after the death of his beloved and troubled wife, Catherine, John Cardinal has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold case files and platonic movie nights...
Written by Giles Blunt
eBook | 304 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-37593-3 (0-307-37593-5)
August 10, 2010 | $12.99
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The long-awaited new instalment in the award-winning, bestselling John Cardinal mystery series.
A year after the death of his beloved and troubled wife, Catherine, John Cardinal has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold case files and platonic movie nights...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Forty Words for Sorrow
eBook | pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-36850-8 (0-307-36850-5)
April 30, 2010 | $12.99
A shake of the dark head, a shudder in the shoulders. Another tiny splash on the linoleum floor. Husband murdered, and now her daughter too. The Inuit, it is said, have forty different words for snow. Never mind about snow, Cardinal mused, what people really need is forty words for sorrow...
Written by Giles Blunt
eBook | pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-36850-8 (0-307-36850-5)
April 30, 2010 | $12.99
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A shake of the dark head, a shudder in the shoulders. Another tiny splash on the linoleum floor. Husband murdered, and now her daughter too. The Inuit, it is said, have forty different words for snow. Never mind about snow, Cardinal mused, what people really need is forty words for sorrow...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Breaking Lorca
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35701-4 (0-307-35701-5)
February 23, 2010 | $19.95
A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.
A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history’s most shocking moral crucibles.
In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad’s head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish...
Written by Giles Blunt
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35701-4 (0-307-35701-5)
February 23, 2010 | $19.95
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A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.
A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history’s most shocking moral crucibles.
In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad’s head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish...
Also available as an
eBook.
Breaking Lorca
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37413-4 (0-307-37413-0)
February 23, 2010 | $12.99
A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.
A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history’s most shocking moral crucibles.
In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad’s head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish...
Written by Giles Blunt
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37413-4 (0-307-37413-0)
February 23, 2010 | $12.99
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A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.
A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history’s most shocking moral crucibles.
In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad’s head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Blackfly Season
eBook | 448 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-37533-9 (0-307-37533-1)
January 29, 2010 | $10.99
Red Bear stood close to the fire and stretched toward the sky, every muscle in his body straining. The veins in his neck stood out like electrical cords. His voice had gone thin and raspy and the words came streaming out of him with a terrible urgency. The words– if in...
Written by Giles Blunt
eBook | 448 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-37533-9 (0-307-37533-1)
January 29, 2010 | $10.99
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Red Bear stood close to the fire and stretched toward the sky, every muscle in his body straining. The veins in his neck stood out like electrical cords. His voice had gone thin and raspy and the words came streaming out of him with a terrible urgency. The words– if in...
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
No Such Creature
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31432-5 (0-679-31432-6)
August 4, 2009 | $21.00
Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can be deceiving.
Old Max is actually...
Written by Giles Blunt
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31432-5 (0-679-31432-6)
August 4, 2009 | $21.00
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Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can be deceiving.
Old Max is actually...
Also available as an
eBook.
No Such Creature
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-37275-8 (0-307-37275-8)
August 4, 2009 | $12.99
Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can be deceiving.
Old Max is actually...
Written by Giles Blunt
eBook | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-37275-8 (0-307-37275-8)
August 4, 2009 | $12.99
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Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can be deceiving.
Old Max is actually...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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