Read Series: John Cardinal And Lise Delorme Mystery
by Author Giles Blunt
Until the Night (2012)
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...
Blackfly Season (2006)
PROTAGONIST: John Cardinal and Lise Delorme, homicide detectivesSETTING: Ontario, CanadaSERIES: #3 of 3RATING: 4.75Located far north in the province of Ontario, Algonquin Bay is normally a placid place of scenic splendor. However, there's one time of year that's a trial for every person that da...
The Delicate Storm (2004)
Giles Blunt's "The Delicate Storm" is surprisingly unremarkable. It is the second novel in the Cardinal/Delorme series, and it does not match the quality of the first book in the series ("Forty Words for Sorrow"), which is one of the better police procedurals I have read. Maybe the "sophomore slu...
Forty Words for Sorrow (2005)
Giles Blunt, Forty Words for Sorrow (Berkeley, 2001)Giles Blunt first came to the attention of critics everywhere as a staff writer for Law and Order, one of the strongest television series in history. And when reading Blunt's first novel, the reader who is a Law and Order fan is likely to know, ...
Eismord (2013)
Another gripping novel in the John Cardinal series set in the fictional town of Algonquin Bay. I don't like to reveal the plot when I review a book because I want the reader to discover it the way I did. Read elsewhere if you want to know what happens before you read the book (though why you woul...