Books by Giles Blunt

Handlingen I den lille provins, Algonquin Bay, hvor John Cardinal arbejder som Drabsbetjent forsvinder en række unge mennesker på mystisk vis. John er stålsat på at finde dem, men ledelsen løber tør for tillid til, at det kan lade sig gøre: Unge mennesker løber så tit hjemmefra, og mord er et særsyn på de kanter. Men da liget af 13-årige Katie Pine, dukker op frosset ned i en gammel mineskakt, genindsættes John på sagen. Og Lise Delorme bliver hans nye kollega. Sammen trawler de, hvad der viser sig at være en hel serie af mord op. Og Lise, der kommer fra Bagmandspolitiet, begynder at grave i Johns fortid. Alt imens ligger et nyt offer og kæmper for sit liv i en kælder. Kan makkerparret nå at bryde kæden af grove forbrydelser, inden de også går udover ham?

Stylish, atmospheric psychological thriller following on from the Silver Dagger Award winner, Forty Words for Sorrow.A gruesome discovery in the wilderness above Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote cabin that has served as an abattoir for a cold-blooded killer...But the woods hide other horrors and soon a second body is discovered, naked and shrouded in ice. When one of the victims is identified as an American the Mounties have to be called in, but it's the Canadian Secret Service that arouses the most mistrust. Is their interference due to a suspected terrorist link, or is there something even more sinister behind it?With Northern Ontario in the grip of an ice storm of once-in-a-hundred years severity, the woods take on a glittering, lethal beauty. And in this winter wonderland John Cardinal must hunt down and confront a killer.

A terrifying psychological thriller in which a spate of suicides could just be the work of a serial killer; featuring homicide detectives Cardinal and Delorme from the award-winning 'Forty Words for Sorrow'.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 and her psychiatrist is not surprised. But her husband, John Cardinal, won't accept this conclusion.Driven by grief and guilt, he launches his own investigation, helped by his reluctant colleagues. And when vicious notes appear, taunting him for his loss, his theory that she was murdered suddenly seems to be credible.Cardinal revisits his past, searching for a possible suspect among his previous arrests. Someone with a grudge, a person twisted enough to target his innocent wife in revenge.But could he be looking in the wrong place? The mystery deepens when he uncovers a spate of tragic suicides, leading him to investigate a startling new possibility - one so shocking, it has never been suspected...