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Giles Blunt


Born
in Windsor, Ontario, Canada
January 01, 1952

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Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Giles Blunt (born 1952 in Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. His first novel, Cold Eye, was a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, which was made into the French movie Les Couleurs du diable (Allain Jessua, 1997).

He is also the author of the John Cardinal novels, set in the small town of Algonquin Bay, in Northern Ontario. Blunt grew up in North Bay, and Algonquin Bay is North Bay very thinly disguised — for example, Blunt retains the names of major streets and the two lakes (Trout Lake and Lake Nipissing) that the town sits between, the physical layout of the two places is the same, and he describes Algonquin Bay as being in the same geographical location as North Bay.

The first Cardinal story, Forty ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 18,450 ratings · 1,675 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors
Forty Words for Sorrow (Joh...
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Blackfly Season (John Cardi...
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The Delicate Storm (John Ca...
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By the Time You Read This (...
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Crime Machine (John Cardina...
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Until the Night (John Cardi...
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No Such Creature
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The Hesitation Cut
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Breaking Lorca
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Cold Eye
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Series by Giles Blunt

Forty Words for Sorrow The Delicate Storm Blackfly Season By the Time You Read This Crime Machine Until the Night
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“Eskimos, it is said, have forty different words for snow. Never mind about snow, Cardinal mused, what people really need is forty words for sorrow. Grief. Heartbreak. Desolation”
― Giles Blunt, Forty Words for Sorrow
tags: grief, heartbreak, sorrow
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“Cardinal mused, what people really need is forty words for sorrow. Grief. Heartbreak. Desolation.”
― Giles Blunt, Forty Words for Sorrow: A Thriller
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“The word fell between them like an ax.”
― Giles Blunt
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