Giles Blunt

The long-awaited new installment in John Cardinal's mystery series. A year after the death of his wife, Catherine, John Cardinal has moved into a new, but very humid condo and has fallen into an easy routine which is shattered when the decapitated bodies of two people are found in a summer home on Algonquin Bay. The victims, visitors from Russia, were in Algonquin Bay attending the annual fur auction. This is by no means a routine murder investigation...

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 a real risk of coming undone.

Now a major television series, CARDINAL, and the first book in the John Cardinal series.
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 serves to get him removed from homicide. Haunted by a criminal secret in his own past and hounded by a special...

Book 3 in the John Cardinal series
It’s spring in Algonquin Bay, and the blackflies are driving people a little mad. Detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme have a strange case on their hands: a young woman has wandered bug-bitten out of the Algonquin Bay bush with a gunshot wound to the head. Cardinal becomes obsessed with finding out who the woman is and who is trying to kill her. When the body of a local biker, Wombat Guthrie,...

When the dismembered corpse of an American tourist turns up half-eaten by bears in the woods near Algonquin Bay, Detective John Cardinal is assigned to the case. Usually his small-town cases practically solve themselves, but not only does he not have a single lead this time, but both the RCMP and CSIS get involved. Then a well-respected woman is found frozen under a glaze of ice, and Cardinal realizes that the two very different murders might well...