Giles Blunt Author of By the Time You Read This Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay, Ontario. After spending over twenty years in New York City, he now lives in Toronto. He has written scripts for Law & Order, Street Legal and Night Heat. He is the author of Forty Words for Sorrow, for which he won the British Crime Writers' Macallan Silver Dagger; A Delicate Storm, winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel; and Blackfly Season, one of Margaret Cannon's Best Mysteries of the Year. [ Taken from publisher's Web site: http://www.randomhouse.ca ] Awards: British Crime Writers' Macallan Silver Dagger Award for Fiction for Forty Words for Sorrow. Shortlisted for Canadian Crime Writers' Arthur Ellis Award for Forty Words for Sorrow. Reviews: • Library Journal ( February 01, 2007) In Silver Dagger Award winner Blunt's latest, Det. John Cardinal (Blackfly Season) is back, and this time it's personal. His wife, Catherine, who for several years has been hospitalized on and off for depression, has seemingly leapt off a roof to her death, leaving a note behind. The coroner and police department rule it a suicide, and her psychiatrist, Dr. Frederick Bell, concurs. Cardinal has some doubts when disturbing notes arrive at his home, but he quickly realizes he is the only one with these doubts. Fellow police officer Lise Delorme feels bad for her friend, but she is tied up trying to track down a local pedophile who has plastered pictures of a young girl all over the Internet. More suicides among Dr. Bell's patients in this small Ontario town further convince Cardinal that something is amiss, and, contrary to departmental policy, he continues to investigate on his own while assisting Delorme with her investigation. Ostensibly a police procedural, this beautifully written and unusual story is really more of a suspenseful, psychological study of evil. Strongly recommended for all public libraries.-Stacy Alesi, Palm Beach Cty. Lib. Syst., Boca Raton, FL Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information. • Booklist (December 15, 2006) The fourth crime novel featuring Detective John Cardinal may give acclaimed Canadian author Blunt the popular recognition he is due. In this installment, Cardinal, who lives and works in fictional Algonquin Bay, Ontario (a bucolic small town similar to Blunt's native North Bay), grieves the death of his manic-depressive wife. Local authorities label it a suicide, but Cardinal isn't so sure, a fear confirmed when he receives a series of anti-sympathy notes in the mail. Detective Cardinal relentlessly pursues the case, though he knows it's much too early to return to the beat. Meanwhile, fellow detective Lise Delorme investigates a child pornographer who posts his wares on the Web. Suspense and a relentless sense of doom pervade this latest offering from Blunt ( Blackfly Season, 2005), winner of the British Crime Writers Silver Dagger and Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis awards. Here even the most minor characters are rendered in vivid detail. A fellow Algonquin Bay citizen is a wisp of a woman, so dehydrated she looked as if she should be dropped in water to expand to her natural size. In Blunt's dark world, even the seemingly well-meaning are eyed with suspicion, for demons lurk in places civilized souls least expect. --Allison Block Copyright 2006 Booklist "Blunt writes a taut, gripping tale of suspense that is loaded with gritty realism. . . . Few can match his wit, wry observations and emotionally charged background sketches." -Edmonton Journal "If Blunt ends the Cardinal series here, he has created a colourful parade of seasonal mysteries. But his readers will hope to meet Cardinal again, as a lion in winter." -Winnipeg Free Press "Blunt, who has received Canadian and international awards for this series, once again proves he can set the scene better than almost anyone else in the crime genre. . . . There is something else Blunt excels at, and that is shedding light on the chilling inner workings of the criminal mind." -The Globe and Mail "In a series that has already taken home numerous awards, this volume, Blunt's fourth, stands out for its grace, compassion and the elegance of his writing. ... It is a poignant literary work that nonetheless offers all the gritty satisfaction of a standard police procedural. This is, quite simply, a great book from a writer at the top of his form." -Calgary Herald Bookreporter.com http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0805080619.asp Related Links: Author's Web site: http://www.gilesblunt.com Publisher's Web site: http://www.randomhouse.ca/author/results.pperl?authorid=2623 Author Interviews: CBC http://www.cbc.ca/soundslikecanada/interviews.html Booked.TV interview: http://www.booked.tv/html/books/authorChats/blunt_giles.htm