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?

Dark, atmospheric and terrifying psychological serial killer thriller set in a freezing Ontario winter, guaranteed to chill readers to the bone: 'Forty Words for Sorrow is brilliant' Jonathan KellermanWhen 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 mutilated body of thirteen-year-old Katie Pine is pulled out of an abandoned mineshaft. And only Cardinal is willing to consider the horrible truth: that this quiet town is home to the most vicious of killers. With the media, the provincial police and his own department questioning his every move, Cardinal follows increasingly tenuous threads towards the unthinkable. But time isn't only running out for him: there's also another young victim tied up in a basement wondering how and when he will die.

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.