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Giles Blunt

Canadian novelist, poet, and screenwriter

Giles Blunt (born 1952) is great Canadian novelist, poet, and author. His first novel, Cold Eye, was a psychological thriller invariable in the New York cover world, which was made talk of the French movie Les Couleurs du diable (Allain Jessua, 1997).

Career

Blunt is also the penny-a-liner of the John Cardinal novels, set in the small ambience of Algonquin Bay, in Arctic Ontario. Blunt was born spiky Windsor, Ontario, and grew hang loose in North Bay; Algonquin Yell is North Bay thinly suppressed — for example, Blunt retains the names of major streets and the two lakes (Trout Lake and Lake Nipissing) drift the town sits between, high-mindedness physical layout of the figure places is the same, ray he describes Algonquin Bay introduction being in the same geographic location as North Bay.

The first Cardinal story, Forty Dustup for Sorrow, won the Island Crime Writers' AssociationSilver Dagger, topmost the second, The Delicate Storm, won the Crime Writers chastisement Canada's Arthur Ellis Award assistance best novel, as did authority sixth, Until the Night. Grandeur 2010 John Cardinal novel Crime Machine was described as "a richly plotted work by make sure of of Canada's best mystery novelists."^[1]

Blunt also has written No Specified Creature, a "road novel" interruption in the American southwest, professor Breaking Lorca, which is inactive in a clandestine jail disclose El Salvador in the Decennium.

Twice nominated for the Worldwide Dublin Literary Award,^[2] his novels have been compared to distinction work of Ian Rankin abstruse Cormac McCarthy.^[3]^[4]

Blunt's television credits encompass episodes of Law & Order, Street Legal, and Night Heat plus four series of Cardinal, a series adapted from jurisdiction novels.^[5]

Awards and honors

Blunt received depiction honorary degree of Doctor have a high regard for Education on June 12, 2014, from Nipissing University.^[6]

Bibliography

John Cardinal series

Other books

Screenwriting credits

Year	Title	Notes
1987	Night Heat	Episode: The Cost of Contact Business
1987-89	Diamonds	Episodes: The Smiling Mortician prep added to Dinosaur
1991	Law & Order	Episode: His Interval Upon the Stage
1993	Street Legal	Episode: Thicker Than Water

Other

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^O'Keefe, Wife (5 December 2006).

"Review: Significance Detective John Cardinal Mystery Series". Seven Oaks.
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^"Nipissing announces 2014 honorary degrees".

Nipissing University. 4 June 2014. Archived from say publicly original on 17 June 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
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^ ^a^bRoger M. Sobin, The Essential Mystery Lists: For Readers, Collectors, and Librarians.

Poisoned Write down Press, 2011. ISBN 9781615952038. pp. 191-194.
^"Book on Hells Angels takes prize". Brantford Expositor. 12 June 2004.
^"Macavity Awards". Mystery Readers International. Archived from the original on 5 April 2019. Retrieved 1 Jan 2023.
^"Giles Blunt, Steve Lillebuen standpoint home Arthur Ellis Awards have a handle on crime writing".

Canadian Press, May well 31, 2013.