GILES BLUNT grew up in North Bay, Ontario, and spent twenty years in New York City as a novelist and a scriptwriter for such shows as Law and Order, Street Legal and Night Heat, before making his home in Toronto. He is the author of the bestselling Cardinal crime series, featuring Algonquin Bay's John Cardinal and Lise Delorme, which has been made into a TV series for CTV. He is widely considered "one of Canada's top crime novelists" (The Globe and Mail) and among "crime drama's elite" (Publishers Weekly). He is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and a recipient of the British Crime Writers' Macallan Silver Dagger.
Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel
Praise for Giles Blunt:
"[Giles Blunt's novels] stand as landmarks in what we might think
of as the new Canadian crime wave. . . . John Cardinal is the
quintessential modern Canadian crime fiction hero—the northern
lawman reimagined."
—The Walrus
"Blunt writes with the flashing grace of an ice skater skimming
over a frozen pond."
—The New York Times Book Review
"One of Canada's best crime novelists."
—The Globe and Mail
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