Crime Machine

The most recent installment in the award-winning, bestselling John Cardinal mystery series.

2010, Random House Canada

Plot Synopsis

A year after the death of his beloved and troubled wife, John Cardinal has moved into a new condo. He has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold cases and platonic movie nights with friend and colleague Lise Delorme. The quiet of a snow-covered Algonquin Bay is shattered when the decapitated bodies of two people are found in a summer home on Trout Lake. The victims, visitors from Russia, are in Algonquin Bay attending the annual fur auction. This is by no means a routine murder investigation as Cardinal soon discovers, but a horrific piece of a very twisted puzzle.

Selected Reviews

"As good as Canadian crime fiction gets — great characters, a perfect murder setting, solid plotting and great pacing. This series would make a great television series." — The Globe and Mail

"Although Canadian mystery writers have achieved national and international standing, none are as exceptional, or as original, as Giles Blunt. His economy of phrasing, his capacity for the dangerously exotic, his explorations of human depravity and his remarkable skill at empathy . . . speak to his growing popularity and critical attention." — Telegraph Journal

"A marvelously controlled writer, equally confident with characters and narrative." — Toronto Star

"Confirms his position among the very best of contemporary thriller writers world-wide." — The Sherbrooke Record

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