books by Giles Blunt

Books by Giles Blunt

	By the Time You Read This, 2006 Random House Canada Henry Holt, US HarperCollins, UK (Title: The Fields of Grief) To read more, click here.
	Black Fly Season, 2005 Random House Canada Penguin Putnam, US HarperCollins, UK To read more, click here.
	The Delicate Storm, 2002 Random House Canada Penguin Putnam, US HarperCollins, UK To read more, click here.
	Forty Words for Sorrow, 2000 Random House Canada Penguin Putnam, US HarperCollins, UK To read more, click here.
	Cold Eye, 1989 William Morrow, US (hardcover) Bantam Press, UK Avon Books, US & Canada (paperback) To read more, click here.

	For years, Cardinal's wife, Catherine, has battled severe depression. When she finally takes her own life, people are saddened but they are not really surprised. Cardinal is completely devastated. The suicide note is definitely in Catherine's own handwriting, and the police find no evidence of foul play, so he is forced to accept that his beloved Catherine has really killed herself. But when hateful notes taunting him about his wife's death begin to arrive in the mail, he begins to suspect that someone he has put in jail over the years has murdered his wife as an act of revenge. Since the police investigation is closed, Cardinal has to seek out answers on his own. His colleagues on the force worry that grief has unhinged the veteran detective and are reluctant to get involved. Even his longtime colleague Lise Delorme can't help—she's wrapped up in a nasty case of her own. So Cardinal goes it alone. And, as he investigates, he uncoveres an alarming rash of suicides in Algonquin Bay, far more than would seem natural for such a small city. Is it possible that they are all murders? Cardinal quickly finds himself tracking a predator so diabolical that the accepted bounds of criminal justice may no longer apply. The Fields of Grief was shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie Gold Dagger. By the Time You Read This is available for purchase at www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.amazon.ca, www.chapters.indigo.ca, and in the UK as The Fields of Grief at www.amazon.co.uk.
	It's early summer in Algonquin Bay and the blackflies aren't the only ones out for blood. Someone is trying to kill a young red-haired woman, but after being shot in the head with a small-calibre weapon she cannot remember her own name or where she's from, let alone why anyone would want to hurt her. Then a body turns up, horribly mutilated. Wombat Guthrie, biker and drug dealer, has taken his last ride. It seems inconceivable that the two cases could be linked, but as detectives Cardinal and Delorme pursue their investigations the name "Red Bear" keeps cropping up. An Ojibwa shaman, Red Bear has recently moved into the drug trade, enlisting the aid of the spirit world to direct his followers to rival gangs' drugs and money. In return, the "spirits" demand sacrifice—human sacrifice. As the mysterious young woman slowly regains her memory, Cardinal begins to suspect that she may not be so innocent after all, and the her recovered "memories" may not be the whole truth. And what of Red Bear? Is he really a shaman? Or just another drug dealer with an appetite for brutal murder? Somehow Cardinal and Delorme must find the answers before the spirits claim another sacrifice. Black Fly Season is available for purchase at www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.amazon.ca, www.chapters.indigo.ca, and www.amazon.co.uk.
	The gruesome discovery of a human arm—minus the hand—in a backyard in Algonquin Bay is assumed to be the work of bears. Until the search for body parts leads detectives Cardinal and Delorme to a remote trapper’s cabin that has served as an abattoir for a cold-blooded human predator. Soon the woods give up a second body, naked and shrouded in ice. John Cardinal is less than thrilled when the first victim is identified as a US citizen and the Mounties are called in to assist. It’s the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, however, that poses the real problem. Is their interference merely a question of preserving jurisdiction over cases involving terrorism—or something more sinister? Even the elements seem to conspire against the police, with Northern Ontario in the grip of an ice storm of once-in-a-hundred-years severity. The woods take on a glittering, lethal beauty, the eerie silence broken only by the crash of falling branches and power lines. And against this backdrop Cardinal comes face to face with a killer. The Delicate Storm received the 2004 Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. It was also nominated for the Dashiell Hammett Award for literary excellence in the field of crime writing by the North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers; a Macavity Award by the members of Mystery Readers International; an Anthony Award for Best Novel by Bouchercon 2004; and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Delicate Storm is published in eight languages. The Delicate Storm is available for purchase at www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.amazon.ca, www.chapters.indigo.ca, and www.amazon.co.uk. To read chapter one, click here.
	When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation leads nowhere. Everyone is ready to give up except Detective John Cardinal, a loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from the Homicide Department. 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. When the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft, only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of serial killers. With pressure bearing down on him from the media, the provincial police and his own department, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the unthinkable. Time isn’t only running out for him, but for another young victim, tied up in a basement wondering when and how his captors will kill him. Forty Words for Sorrow was awarded the Macallan Silver Dagger for fiction in 2001. Forty Words for Sorrow is published in nine languages and is available on audio tape. Forty Words for Sorrow is available for purchase at www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, www.chapters.indigo.ca, www.amazon.co.uk, and, as an ebook at Diesel ebooks. To read chapter one, click here.
	Snubbed by art critics and collectors alike, Nicholas Hood sees suicide as his only recourse. His paintings are unique, unsettling . . . and unsalable—graphic oil-on-canvas depictions of violent death set against serene Manhattan backdrops. But at the lowest depths of his despair, the artist meets Bellisle, a hideously deformed dwarf with bizarre precognitive powers. The strange little man points Hood toward grisly scenes of urban horror—offering the tortured painter gruesome inspiration for his nightmare visions. Hood becomes more and more successful, but he will soon pay a terrible price. Cold Eye has been published in five languages. Cold Eye is available for purchase (used) at www.amazon.com, www.amazon.ca, and www.amazon.co.uk. To read chapter one, click here.

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