Most Popular Books by Giles Blunt

Now a major television series, CARDINAL, and the first book in the John Cardinal series. When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. 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. Then the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of serial killers. The case as it unfolds proves eerily reminiscent of the Moors murders in Britain, as an unassuming young man and his belligerently loyal girlfriend scout young victims for their macabre games. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, 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.

From an "outstanding police procedural" series, an "ingenious" suspense novel about a cop''s search for a killer as he grieves his wife''s suspicious death (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review ). Autumn has arrived in Algonquin Bay, and with it an unusual spate of suicides. The most shocking victim yet is Detective John Cardinal''s wife, who has finally succumbed to her battle with manic depression. As Cardinal takes time to grieve, his partner, Lise Delorme, handles an unsavory assignment: a young girl appears in a series of unspeakable photos being traded online, and background elements indicate she lives in Algonquin Bay. Delorme is desperate to find the girl before she suffers more abuse. When Cardinal receives a string of hateful anonymous notes about his wife''s death, he begins to suspect homicide. His colleagues believe he is too distraught to think clearly, and he''s forced to investigate alone. In doing so, he comes up against a brand of killer neither he—nor the reader—has ever seen before. "The most beautifully written, deeply felt page-turner of the year." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Emotionally involving and intellectually challenging, with all the excitements of a good crime story." —Reginald Hill, author of The Stranger House "A thought-provoking, complex novel of suspense, with one of the most chilling literary villains since Hannibal Lecter." — Bookpage "The fourth crime novel featuring Detective John Cardinal may give acclaimed Canadian author Blunt the popular recognition he is due." — Booklist, starred review "An unexpected yet utterly realistic twist lifts this novel into extremely exciting (and entertaining) territory. Sharp dialogue, complex characters and a satisfying conclusion." — Publisher''s Weekly

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 on his neck, and the likely suspect is his lover''s outraged husband. But the lover has gone missing. And then Delorme, following a hunch, locates another missing woman, a senator''s wife from Ottawa, frozen in the ruins of an abandoned hotel way back in the woods. Spookily, she was chained up and abandoned wearing a new winter parka and boots, with a thermos beside her--as if her murderer was giving her a whisper of a chance at survival. Neither Delorme nor Cardinal can imagine where their investigation will lead: into a decades-old injustice committed in the high Arctic; into the swingers'' world inhabited by an ex-rock star who owns a pub in Algonquin Bay as well as private members'' clubs in Toronto and Ottawa; into the insecurity that afflicts Delorme the woman and the cop; and into the deep bond between Delorme and Cardinal, which is at real risk of coming undone. In Until the Night, Giles Blunt outdoes himself, creating a masterpiece of crime fiction that will not only haunt his fans and readers, but delight and amaze them too.

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 a master thief, and young Owen''s summer vacation is his careful apprenticeship in a life of crime. Pulling heists is scary enough, but ominous signs point to the alarming fact that The Subtractors are on their tail, criminal bogeymen who stop at nothing to steal from other thieves. The road trip soon turns into a chase, by turns comic and horrifying. The most disturbing twist: Owen''s slow realization that the person he loves most in the world is the one who can do him the most harm. From the Hardcover edition.

Book 5 in the John Cardinal 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 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. Blunt has, once again, given us a page-turning plot, a remarkable cast of characters and the comfort of John Cardinal at the helm.

Book 3 in the John Cardinal series It’s spring in Algonquin Bay, and the blackflies are driving people a little mad. Detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme have a strange case on their hands: a young woman has wandered bug-bitten out of the Algonquin Bay bush with a gunshot wound to the head. Cardinal becomes obsessed with finding out who the woman is and who is trying to kill her. When the body of a local biker, Wombat Guthrie, is found in a cave, it seems the two cases are related—and the link appears to be a drug dealer and self-proclaimed shaman who calls himself Red Bear.

At a tuberculosis sanitarium in the Adirondacks, a young tutor falls in love with a mysterious woman who survived the Lusitania disaster. “Bad Juliet will hold you in its grip from its opening pages, combining the pacing and twists of a thriller with the compelling characterizations and masterful prose of a writer at the top of his form.” — Nino Ricci, award-winning author of The Origin of Species Recently jilted by his fiancé, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanitarium in upstate New York. There, in the icebound beauty of the Adirondack Mountains, he finds himself drawn to Sarah Ballard, a beautiful but enigmatic young woman, traumatized by her past aboard the ill-fated ship Lusitania. To rouse her out of her gloom, Paul encourages her to write a memoir. As Paul reads her words, it gradually becomes clear that Sarah’s memories are a tangle of truth and fiction that he can’t begin to unravel. And yet he cannot overcome his attraction to her. When a terrible relapse leaves Sarah worried that she has little time left, she begs Paul to be the one person in the world who will truly know her.

Book 2 in the John Cardinal series When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eatenby bears near Algonquin Bay, Detective John Cardinal is assigned to thecase. Without a solid lead, and with the RCMP and CSIS involved,Cardinal is forced to band together with his nemesis, Sergeant MalcolmMusgrave, to untangle the deceit and cover-ups surrounding the case. Thena well-respected local woman is found frozen under a glaze of ice in thewoods, and Cardinal realizes that the two very different murders may well beconnected. Working closely with his trusted colleague, Detective Lise Delorme, to whomhe feels a dangerous attraction, Cardinal fights his emotions and a relentless icestorm only to uncover a knot of lies and conspiracies that go back more thanthirty years and extend to the highest reaches of Canadian intelligence.

A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity. 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 new recruit, Victor Peña, is assigned to assist in her interrogation. Before they learn so much as her name—Lorca—the squad relentlessly break her, body and soul. It is a terrifying journey into human cruelty and courage, one which years later—in the pinnacle of cosmopolitan America—still haunts the tormentor as dramatically as it does his victim.

When John Cardinal''s wife plummets to her death after losing her battle with depression, everyone is sure it is a tragic suicide - there''s even a note. Everyone, that is, except John Cardinal.

Now a major television series, CARDINAL, and the first book in the John Cardinal series. When four teenagers go missing in the small northern town of Algonquin Bay, the extensive police investigation comes up empty. Everyone is ready to give up except Detective John Cardinal, an all-too-human loner whose persistence only serves to get him removed from homicide. 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. Then the mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of serial killers. The case as it unfolds proves eerily reminiscent of the Moors murders in Britain, as an unassuming young man and his belligerently loyal girlfriend scout young victims for their macabre games. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, 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.

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 up on four missing teenagers only alienates him further from the Homicide Unit. And when the mutilated body of a 13-year-old is discovered in a mineshaft, he is the only one willing to consider the horrible truth of what’s really happening in Algonquin Bay. The first three novels in the award-winning, bestselling John Cardinal mystery series revisit this northern Ontario setting with wholly unique, thrilling and suspenseful tales, and an unforgettable protagonist who has been called “the quintessential modern Canadian crime fiction hero” (The Walrus).

Master crime novelist Giles Blunt is back with a standalone novel of penetrating psychological suspense. Turning the screw tighter on every page, he delivers an intricately plotted story of jealousy and obsession that rivals the best of Patricia Highsmith and Gillian Flynn. Nothing could be more serene than the life of Brother William, a young Benedictine monk who had turned his back on the world ten years earlier to retreat to a monastery in upstate New York. But then Lauren Wolfe, a troubled young poet, comes to use the library to research a book on Heloise and Abelard; one sight of the faint scars from a failed suicide attempt on Lauren''s wrist is enough to turn the monk''s life upside down. Every suppressed romantic impulse rises to the surface: his desire to rescue and soothe her trumps his vows of obedience, poverty and chastity. Soon he is simply Peter, a gentle young man who has followed his beloved to New York City because he needs to look out for her, as sincerely as he once pursued his calling. Of course, just because you love doesn''t mean your love will be returned. Just because your intentions are good doesn''t mean you''ll achieve what you intend. No one illuminates the extreme psychological states this tale of obsession explores better than Giles Blunt. And no reader will ever see the end coming...

Spannung pur im dritten Teil der John Cardinal-Reihe von Bestseller Giles Blint Ein bizarrer Ritualmord schockiert die Polizei von Algonquin Bay: In einer mit rätselhaften Zeichen versehenen Höhle in den Wäldern wird die verstümmelte Leiche eines Unbekannten gefunden. Füße, Hände und Kopf sind abgetrennt worden und verschwunden. Detective John Cardinal und seine Kollegin Lise Delorme tappen zunächst im Dunkeln, doch dann führt eine Spur zu Red Bear, einem mysteriösen indianischen Schamanen, der mit einer gefürchteten Gang im Bunde zu sein scheint. »Kalter Mond« von Giles Blint ist ein eBook von Topkrimi – exciting eBooks. Das Zuhause für spannende, aufregende, nervenzerreißende Krimis und Thriller. Mehr eBooks findest du auf Facebook. Werde Teil unserer Community und entdecke jede Woche neue Fälle, Crime und Nervenkitzel zum Top-Preis!

Als seine Frau Catherine mit einem Abschiedsbrief in der Hand tot aufgefunden wird, bricht für Detective John Cardinal die Welt zusammen. Für seine Kollegen von der Polizei in Algonquin Bay ist der Fall klar: Selbstmord. Doch Cardinal kann es einfach nicht glauben und beginnt auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln. Schon bald gelangt er auf die Spur des Psychiaters Dr. Bell, den auch Catherine in ihren depressiven Phasen aufgesucht hatte. Ihm fällt auf, dass ungewöhnlich viele Patienten sterben, während sie bei dem Arzt in Behandlung sind. Alles nur Zufall? Eisiges Herz von Giles Blunt: Spannung pur im eBook!

Algonquin Bay, eisiger Winter: Detective John Cardinal trauert um seine Frau Catherine und lenkt sich mit »cold cases« von seinem tiefen Schmerz ab. Zu seiner Kollegin Lise Delorme pflegt er weiterhin ein platonisches Verhältnis. Doch mit der winterlichen Ruhe ist es vorbei, als in einem Ferienhaus am zugefrorenen Trout Lake zwei Leichen gefunden werden, beide enthauptet. Kurz darauf werden die dazugehörigen Köpfe gefunden, auffällig drapiert an einer Schiffsanlegestelle. Als weitere mysteriöse Verbrechen geschehen, muss Cardinal feststellen, dass er es mit einem äußerst verzwickten Fall zu tun hat. Nichts ist, wie es scheint. Aber die Morde lassen ihn nicht los, sein alter Ehrgeiz ist erwacht...

Ein packender und harter Thriller vom preisgekrönten Bestsellerautor Giles Blunt Algonquin Bay, Kanada: In einer kalten Nacht wird Detective John Cardinal zu einem Mordfall gerufen. Auf dem Parkplatz eines Motels liegt eine Männerleiche mit einem Stiefelabdruck an der Kehle – offenbar ein Mord aus Eifersucht. Die Geliebte des Mordopfers ist verschwunden. Kurz darauf wird, angekettet in einem verlassenen Hotel im Wald, die Frau eines Politikers aus Ottawa erfroren aufgefunden. Seine Ermittlungen führen Cardinal tief in die Arktis, auf die Spur eines jahrzehntealten ungesühnten Verbrechens bei einer Polarexpedition ... "Ewiges Eis", ausgezeichnet als bester kanadischer Kriminalroman, ist der sechste Band der John Cardinal-Reihe: "Eine der handwerklich besten, großartig geschriebenen, fesselndsten Krimiserien überhaupt." Lindwood Barclay

When Giles Blunt''s first crime novel appeared, the Toronto Star said it "immediately raises the bar of Canadian crime fiction." The Globe and Mail calls him "a master storyteller," and fans of Blunt''s fiction are familiar with his ability to shape a tense narrative for maximum impact. With Vanishing Act, his debut collection of verse, Blunt delivers equally potent strength and quality, opening up for the reader a new, "wicked pack of cards" - in that deck, a cast of characters that speak to the different stages of personal journey: coming of age, heartbreak, terrible loss, the fear of death, philosophical musing, and the personal apocalypse that may one day come...

Ausgezeichnet von den Crime Writers of Canada als bester Thriller des Jahres 2004 Eines Morgens, im dicksten, klebrig-feuchten Januarnebel, verschlägt es Ivan Bergeron die Sprache: Sein Hund legt ihm einen abgerissenen Arm vor die Füße. Zunächst glauben Detective John Cardinal und seine Kollegin Lise Delorme von der Polizei in Algonquin Bay, der Mann sei von Bären zerrissen worden. Doch schon bald entdeckt Cardinal in einer abgelegenen Trapperhütte weitere Körperteile. Kurze Zeit später wird im Wald eine zweite Leiche gefunden – nackt, überzogen von einer dünnen Eisschicht ... »Wem bei diesem Krimi nicht das Blut in den Adern gefriert, hat ein Herz aus Stein.« Schweizer Illustrierte Blutiges Eis von Giles Blunt: Spannung pur im eBook!

Der alte Max und sein Neffe Owen sind absolute Profis. Wie einst Robin Hood -nehmen sie gekonnt die Reichsten aus. Doch nun wendet sich das Blatt. Die »Subtractors«, eine Bande, die ihrerseits Räuber ausraubt, wollen ihnen ihre Beute abjagen. Zu dumm, dass Max ausgerechnet jetzt Aussetzer hat ...

L’automne est la plus belle saison à Algonquin Bay. La saison préférée de Catherine, la femme maniaco-dépressive de John Cardinal, et pourtant celle qu’elle choisit pour se jeter du toit d’un immeuble de neuf étages. Face à une lettre d’adieu et à l’absence de traces de lutte sur le toit, la police conclut à un suicide. Mais Cardinal reçoit un message déplaisant, suivi d''autres encore plus perturbants, puis il découvre, en examinant le carnet de Catherine, que la note d’adieu n’était pas la dernière chose qu’elle y ait écrite... Contre l’avis de tous, il creuse l’idée qu’après tout, ce n’était pas forcément un suicide. Traduit par Oristelle Bonis

The third atmospheric psychological thriller featuring detectives Cardinal and Delorme, from the award-winning author of Forty Words for Sorrow.

En Algonquin Bay, una pequeña ciudad canadiense, han desaparecido cuatro adolescentes sin dejar rastro. La policía abre una investigación, que pronto se revela infructuosa. El único que se resiste a abandonar el caso es el solitario y tenaz detective John Cardinal. Su obstinación, que se añade a algunos problemas internos del departamento, obliga a sus incomodados superiores a apartarlo de la Brigada de Homicidios. Los problemas se acumulan para Cardinal, que ve peligrar no solo su carrera, sino también la relación con su familia. Todo da un giro inesperado cuando aparece el cuerpo sin vida de una chica de trece años en una mina abandonada. La inevitable conclusión a la que Cardinal llega es que la ciudad se enfrenta a unos asesinos despiadados. Y esta verdad solamente la asume él, sometiéndose así a la presión de los medios de comunicación y de la policía. Cardinal tiene que darse prisa en interpretar las pistas y en encontrar a los criminales, porque quizá esté en juego la vida de algún inocente más.

Contains notes, source material, and drafts for screenplays and novels; early draft poetry, short stories and other juvenilia; plus reviews of Blunt''s crime fiction novels from various publications. Also contains correspondence between Blunt, his editors, literary agents, publishers and others regarding the research and publication of his works, as well as some general promotional material.

In der klirrenden Kälte des kanadischen Winters wird in einem Minenschacht, festgefroren in einem Eisblock, die grausig zugerichtete Leiche eines Mädchens gefunden. Und in der Provinzstadt Algonquin Bay sind noch drei weitere Teenager spurlos verschwunden. Detective John Cardinal glaubt, dass ein perverser Serienkiller sein Unwesen treibt. Doch die Wahrheit ist noch viel erschreckender.

Alors qu''une tempête de neige exceptionnelle menace Algonquin Bay, un mécanicien découvre dans la neige un bras humain, visiblement déchiqueté par des ours. A l''examen d''autres morceaux du corps éparpillés dans la nature, il apparaît que la victime serait un citoyen américain, ancien agent de la CIA. Remontant la piste jusqu''à New York, puis Montréal, John Cardinal entrevoit, malgré l''obstruction à peine voilée des services secrets canadiens, un lien entre ce meurtre et les événements qui secouèrent le Québec au début des années 1910. Le Front de Libération du Québec avait alors longuement séquestré un diplomate britannique et un ministre canadien. Fragilisé une fois de plus par des problèmes d''ordre familial, Cardinal met au jour les vérités complexes de l''action terroriste d''autrefois, débusquant un meurtrier particulièrement cynique. Un thriller atmosphérique et implacable, suite de Quarante mots pour la neige.