Giles Blunt

The discovery of the body of a supposed thirteen-year-old runaway and the disappearance of another youngster in the rural town of Algonquin Bay force local cops John Cardinal and his new partner, Lisa Delorme, into a desperate search for a possible serial killer.

Forty Words for Sorrow

Master crime novelist Giles Blunt is back with a standalone novel of penetrating psychological suspense. Turning the screw tighter on every page, he delivers an intricately plotted story of jealousy and obsession that rivals the best of Patricia Highsmith and Gillian Flynn. Nothing could be more serene than the life of Brother William, a young Benedictine monk who had turned his back on the world ten years earlier to retreat to a monastery in upstate New York. But then Lauren Wolfe, a troubled young poet, comes to use the library to research a book on Heloise and Abelard; one sight of the faint scars from a failed suicide attempt on Lauren's wrist is enough to turn the monk's life upside down. Every suppressed romantic impulse rises to the surface: his desire to rescue and soothe her trumps his vows of obedience, poverty and chastity. Soon he is simply Peter, a gentle young man who has followed his beloved to New York City because he needs to look out for her, as sincerely as he once pursued his calling. Of course, just because you love doesn't mean your love will be returned. Just because your intentions are good doesn't mean you'll achieve what you intend. No one illuminates the extreme psychological states this tale of obsession explores better than Giles Blunt. And no reader will ever see the end coming...

The Hesitation Cut

In Algonquin Bay, einem Provinznest in Kanada, sind 4 Teenager spurlos verschwunden. Als man die zerstückelte Leiche eines 13-jährigen Mädchens in einem tiefgefrorenen Minenschacht findet, ist für die Polizei klar, dass ein psychopathischer Serienmörder sein Unwesen treibt.

Thriller

Gefrorene Seelen

It's not unusual for John Cardinal to be hauled out of a warm bed on a cold night in Algonquin Bay to investigate a murder. And at first this dead body, sprawled in the parking lot of Motel 17, looks pretty run of the mill. And then Delorme, following a hunch, locates another missing woman, a senator's wife from Ottawa, frozen in the ruins of an abandoned hotel way back in the woods...

Until the Night

The long-awaited new instalment in the award-winning, bestselling John Cardinal mystery series. A year after the death of his beloved and troubled wife, Catherine, John Cardinal has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold case files and platonic movie nights with friend and colleague Lise Delorme. The quiet of a snow-covered Algonquin Bay is shattered when the decapitated bodies of two people are found in a summer home on Trout Lake. The victims, visitors from Russia, are in Algonquin Bay attending the annual fur auction. This is by no means a routine murder investigation as Cardinal soon discovers, but a horrific piece of a very twisted puzzle. Blunt has, once again, given us a page-turning plot, a remarkable cast of characters and the comfort of John Cardinal at the helm.

Crime Machine

As autumn approaches, Algonquin Bay is rocked by an unusual number of suicides, including the wife of Detective John Cardinal, but a string of hateful anonymous notes leads him to suspect that her death had been a homicide, despite the disbelief of his colleagues, including his partner Lise Delorme, who is investigating a nasty case of child pornography.

A Novel

By the Time You Read This

A young woman stumbles into a rough Algonquin Bay tavern covered in black fly bites, with a bullet in her brain, and no memory. Homicide detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delmore know someone left her for dead. And if word gets out she's alive, someone will try again.

Blackfly Season

Nicholas Hood, a painter of imaginary murders in New York settings who has never sold a canvas, meets Andre Bellisle, who can forsee the deaths of others, and the two travel a deadly path toward success

Cold Eye

Long after others had given up on Katie Pine as just another runaway teenager, her dead body is found, and then when another death occurs, John Cardinal and his new partner Lisa Delorme start investigating the possibility of a serial killer in the cold of a Canadian winter.

In the wake of a dual murder during a freak winter warm spell, Algonquin Bay homicide detectives Delorme and Cardinal link the killings to other unsolved murders spanning back some thirty years.

The Delicate Storm

No Such Creature

Blutiges Eis

Anke Kreutzer

Kalter Mond

Als Detective John Cardinal spätabends zu einer Leiche gerufen wird, die man vor einem Hochhaus gefunden hat, sieht alles nach Routine aus. Ein klarer Fall von Selbstmord. Bis Cardinal vor der Toten auf dem Pflaster steht und sie erkennt: Es ist Catherine, seine Frau. (Quelle: Buchdeckel verso).

Eisiges Herz

In the wake of a dual murder during a freak winter warm spell, Algonquin Bay homicide detectives Delorme and Cardinal link the killings to other unsolved murders spanning back some thirty years, a case with possible connections to Quebec terrorist activities. Reprint.

When four teenagers disappear in the Northern Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a down-on-his luck detective decides to pick up the trail at the point where everybody else has given up. After one of the teenager's bodies is pulled from an abandoned mine shaft, the detective, haunted by his own criminal past, follows increasingly tenuous paths toward the killer's hide-out.

In Blunt's most masterful and thrilling novel yet, Detective John Cardinal is on the hunt for an ingenious killer even as he mourns his own wife's tragic death.

By the Time You Read this

Ausgezeichnet von den Crime Writers of Canada als bester Thriller des Jahres 2004 Eines Morgens, im dicksten, klebrig-feuchten Januarnebel, verschlägt es Ivan Bergeron die Sprache: Sein Hund legt ihm einen abgerissenen Arm vor die Füße. Zunächst glauben Detective John Cardinal und seine Kollegin Lise Delorme von der Polizei in Algonquin Bay, der Mann sei von Bären zerrissen worden. Doch schon bald entdeckt Cardinal in einer abgelegenen Trapperhütte weitere Körperteile. Kurze Zeit später wird im Wald eine zweite Leiche gefunden – nackt, überzogen von einer dünnen Eisschicht ... »Wem bei diesem Krimi nicht das Blut in den Adern gefriert, hat ein Herz aus Stein.« Schweizer Illustrierte Blutiges Eis von Giles Blunt: Spannung pur im eBook!

It's not unusual for John Cardinal to be hauled out of a warm bed on a cold night in Algonquin Bay to investigate a murder. And at first this dead body, sprawled in the parking lot of Motel 17, looks pretty run of the mill: the corpse has a big bootprint on his neck, and the likely suspect is his lover's outraged husband. But the lover has gone missing. And then Delorme, following a hunch, locates another missing woman, a senator's wife from Ottawa, frozen in the ruins of an abandoned hotel way back in the woods. Spookily, she was chained up and abandoned wearing a new winter parka and boots, with a thermos beside her--as if her murderer was giving her a whisper of a chance at survival. Neither Delorme nor Cardinal can imagine where their investigation will lead: into a decades-old injustice committed in the high Arctic; into the swingers' world inhabited by an ex-rock star who owns a pub in Algonquin Bay as well as private members' clubs in Toronto and Ottawa; into the insecurity that afflicts Delorme, the woman and the cop; and into the deep bond between Delorme and Cardinal, which is at real risk of coming undone. In Until the Night, Giles Blunt outdoes himself, creating a masterpiece of crime fiction that will not only haunt his fans and readers, but delight and amaze them too.

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