Giles Blunt

Giles Blunt was born in Windsor, Ontario, and spent his teenage years in North Bay where he attended Scollard Hall. After studying at the University of Toronto, he moved to England to write his first (unpublished) novel. He spent 20 years in New York City, working variously as a bartender, a copy editor for BusinessWeek, and a screenwriter for Law and Order and other TV shows. When the success of Forty Words for Sorrow allowed him to write novels full-time, he moved back to Toronto, where he lives with his wife and two cats. He is the author of six crime novels featuring John Cardinal and Lise Delorme. Cardinal, the TV series adapted from these books, has aired to large audiences in more than 100 countries. Blunt’s other novels include Cold Eye (psychological suspense), No Such Creature (a picaresque “road novel”), Breaking Lorca (a political thriller), and The Hesitation Cut (a tale of romantic obsession). These last two books signpost his turn away from crime into literary fiction. His latest novel is Bad Juliet, set 100 years ago in a tuberculosis sanitarium, where a young poet/novelist falls in love with a mysterious woman, a survivor of the Lusitania disaster.