Giles Blunt

Blunt, Giles

The Fields of Grief

Photographer Catherine Cardinal's fatal fall from a high building one moonlit night is ruled an act of suicide. She has a history of depression; a note is found; her psychiatrist is not surprised. But her husband won't accept this conclusion. Driven by grief & guilt, he launches his own...Read more

The Delicate Storm

During the third week of January, the town of Algonquin Bay in Ontario experiences a freak warm front.  There is a thick fog blanketing the area pushing up the temperature and bears are coming out of hibernation.  When a mechanic discovers a mauled arm in the snow, the first assumption is...Read more

Forty Words For Sorrow

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. Then the...Read more

The Fields of Grief, Giles Blunt

John Cardinal is a detective in the small police force, in Algonquin Bay, Ontario a small rural town in Canada. The local mayor keeps reporting his wife missing, when everybody else in town knows exactly what she's up to. Rather than just try to convince the poor delusional husband what's...Read more

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The Delicate Storm, Giles Blunt (review by sunniefromoz)

For someone from a climate as mild as Australia, the cold of a Canadian winter seems somewhat exotic.  Salting the roads, ice storms, bears coming out of hibernation when there’s a warm snap, are all vividly depicted.  Giles Blunt imparts a strong feeling of  being connected to the...Read more

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