Giles Blunt

A John Cardinal Mystery

1 - Forty Words for Sorrow (Jun-2001)
2 - The Delicate Storm (May-2003)
3 - Black Fly Season (Apr-2005)
4 - By the Time You Read This (Oct-2006)

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  Cold Eye
  

  • Jun-1990
  • / General Fiction
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  Nicholas Hood, a painter of imaginary murders in New York settings who has never sold a canvas, meets Andre Bellisle, who can forsee the deaths of others, and the two travel a deadly path toward success...

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  Forty Words for Sorrow
  

  • Jun-2001
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A John Cardinal Mystery - 1
  

  In the quiet Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a frozen body has been found in an abandoned mine shaft. She is quickly identified as Katie Pine, a teenager who had disappeared months ago. At the time, Detective John Cardinal insisted that Katie was no ...

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  The Delicate Storm
  

  • May-2003
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A John Cardinal Mystery - 2
  

  In the wake of a dual murder during a freak winter warm spell, Algonquin Bay homicide detectives Delorme and Cardinal link the killings to other unsolved murders spanning back some thirty years, a case with possible connections to Quebec terrorist ac...

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  Black Fly Season
  

  • Apr-2005
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A John Cardinal Mystery - 3
  

  Only someone dumb or high would go out unprotected during Algonquin Bay’s black fly season. But when a beautiful young woman covered in bites stumbles into a tavern, the local cops discover she is neither. The woman has a bullet in her brain -- and...

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  By the Time You Read This
  

  • Oct-2006
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A John Cardinal Mystery - 4
  

  Detective John Cardinal is on the hunt for an ingenious killer even as he mourns his own wife's tragic death in this thriller of heart-stopping suspense Autumn has arrived in Algonquin Bay, and with it an unusual spate of suicides. The most shocking...

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  No Such Creature
  

  • Oct-2008
  • / Suspense
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  Silver Dagger winner Giles Blunt delivers an exhilarating game of cat and mouse with a most unlikely -- and likeable -- pair of thieves Eight years ago, Owen Maxwell was saved from a foster home by the arrival of his uncle Max from England. Once a pr...

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  Breaking Lorca
  

  • Feb-2009
  • / General Fiction
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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 gover...

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  Crime Machine
  

  • Aug-2010
  • / Mystery
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  Until the Night
  

  • May-2013
  • / Mystery
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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 b...

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  The Fields of Grief
  

  • Sep-2021
  • / General Fiction
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