Giles Blunt
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.
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Breaking Lorca
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35701-4 (0-307-35701-5)
February 23, 2010 | $19.95
A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.
A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history’s most shocking moral crucibles.
In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad’s head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish...
Written by Giles Blunt
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35701-4 (0-307-35701-5)
February 23, 2010 | $19.95
A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.
A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history’s most shocking moral crucibles.
In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad’s head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish...
Breaking Lorca
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37413-4 (0-307-37413-0)
February 23, 2010 | $19.95
A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.
A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history’s most shocking moral crucibles.
In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad’s head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish...
Written by Giles Blunt
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37413-4 (0-307-37413-0)
February 23, 2010 | $19.95
A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.
A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history’s most shocking moral crucibles.
In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad’s head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish...
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No Such Creature
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-37275-8 (0-307-37275-8)
August 4, 2009 | $21.00
Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can be deceiving.
Old Max is actually...
Written by Giles Blunt
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-307-37275-8 (0-307-37275-8)
August 4, 2009 | $21.00
Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can be deceiving.
Old Max is actually...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
No Such Creature
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31432-5 (0-679-31432-6)
August 4, 2009 | $21.00
Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can be deceiving.
Old Max is actually...
Written by Giles Blunt
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31432-5 (0-679-31432-6)
August 4, 2009 | $21.00
Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can be deceiving.
Old Max is actually...
Breaking Lorca
Hardcover | 272 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35700-7 (0-307-35700-7)
February 17, 2009 | $29.95
A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.
A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history’s most shocking moral crucibles.
In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad’s head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish...
Written by Giles Blunt
Hardcover | 272 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35700-7 (0-307-35700-7)
February 17, 2009 | $29.95
A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity.
A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history’s most shocking moral crucibles.
In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad’s head-quarters, suspected of supporting guerilla forces. There, a bookish...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
No Such Creature
Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31431-8 (0-679-31431-8)
October 14, 2008 | $29.95
Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can be deceiving.
Old Max is actually...
Written by Giles Blunt
Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31431-8 (0-679-31431-8)
October 14, 2008 | $29.95
Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you might imagine, can be deceiving.
Old Max is actually...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
By the Time You Read This
Paperback | 432 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7704-3003-0 (0-7704-3003-1)
October 30, 2007 | $10.99
The Planet Grief. An incalculable number of light years from the warmth of the sun. When the rain falls, it falls in droplets of grief, and when the light shines, it is in waves and particles of grief. From whatever direction the wind blows–south, east, north or west– it blows cinders...
Written by Giles Blunt
Paperback | 432 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7704-3003-0 (0-7704-3003-1)
October 30, 2007 | $10.99
The Planet Grief. An incalculable number of light years from the warmth of the sun. When the rain falls, it falls in droplets of grief, and when the light shines, it is in waves and particles of grief. From whatever direction the wind blows–south, east, north or west– it blows cinders...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
By the Time You Read This
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31500-1 (0-679-31500-4)
May 1, 2007 | $19.95
The Planet Grief. An incalculable number of light years from the warmth of the sun. When the rain falls, it falls in droplets of grief, and when the light shines, it is in waves and particles of grief. From whatever direction the wind blows–south, east, north or west– it blows cinders...
Written by Giles Blunt
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31500-1 (0-679-31500-4)
May 1, 2007 | $19.95
The Planet Grief. An incalculable number of light years from the warmth of the sun. When the rain falls, it falls in droplets of grief, and when the light shines, it is in waves and particles of grief. From whatever direction the wind blows–south, east, north or west– it blows cinders...
Also available as a
paperback.
Blackfly Season
Paperback | 448 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7704-2933-1 (0-7704-2933-5)
September 26, 2006 | $10.99
Red Bear stood close to the fire and stretched toward the sky, every muscle in his body straining. The veins in his neck stood out like electrical cords. His voice had gone thin and raspy and the words came streaming out of him with a terrible urgency. The words– if in...
Written by Giles Blunt
Paperback | 448 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7704-2933-1 (0-7704-2933-5)
September 26, 2006 | $10.99
Red Bear stood close to the fire and stretched toward the sky, every muscle in his body straining. The veins in his neck stood out like electrical cords. His voice had gone thin and raspy and the words came streaming out of him with a terrible urgency. The words– if in...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Blackfly Season
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31442-4 (0-679-31442-3)
November 1, 2005 | $19.95
Red Bear stood close to the fire and stretched toward the sky, every muscle in his body straining. The veins in his neck stood out like electrical cords. His voice had gone thin and raspy and the words came streaming out of him with a terrible urgency. The words– if in...
Written by Giles Blunt
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-679-31442-4 (0-679-31442-3)
November 1, 2005 | $19.95
Red Bear stood close to the fire and stretched toward the sky, every muscle in his body straining. The veins in his neck stood out like electrical cords. His voice had gone thin and raspy and the words came streaming out of him with a terrible urgency. The words– if in...
Also available as a
paperback.
The Delicate Storm
Paperback | 416 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7704-2939-3 (0-7704-2939-4)
March 23, 2004 | $10.99
…there is nothing more still than a dead body, and no mistaking it for anything else. This one was naked, covered with a glaze of ice. Even the long black hair that fell in tendrils across her face was encased in ice. It was as if she were under a spell–the...
Written by Giles Blunt
Paperback | 416 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7704-2939-3 (0-7704-2939-4)
March 23, 2004 | $10.99
…there is nothing more still than a dead body, and no mistaking it for anything else. This one was naked, covered with a glaze of ice. Even the long black hair that fell in tendrils across her face was encased in ice. It was as if she were under a spell–the...
Forty Words for Sorrow
Paperback | 400 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7704-2873-0 (0-7704-2873-8)
June 11, 2002 | $10.99
The first in a series of spine-chilling thrillers featuring Detective John Cardinal and enjoying international raves!
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...
Written by Giles Blunt
Paperback | 400 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7704-2873-0 (0-7704-2873-8)
June 11, 2002 | $10.99
The first in a series of spine-chilling thrillers featuring Detective John Cardinal and enjoying international raves!
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...
