Biography
Giles Blunt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. Born in Windsor, Ontario, in 1952, he grew up in North Bay and studied English literature at the University of Toronto. He lived in New York City for twenty years, writing for television series including Law & Order, Street Legal and Night Heat.
Blunt is best known for the John Cardinal crime novels, set in the fictional northern Ontario city of Algonquin Bay. The first, Forty Words for Sorrow (2000), won the Crime Writers' Association Silver Dagger award; later entries including The Delicate Storm and Until the Night won Arthur Ellis Awards from the Crime Writers of Canada. The series was adapted into the television series Cardinal (2017).
His other works include the psychological thriller Cold Eye (1989), which was filmed in France as Les Couleurs du diable (1997), and standalone novels such as No Such Creature and Breaking Lorca.
