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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. Haunt...

"At a tuberculosis sanitarium in the Adirondacks, a young tutor falls in love with a mysterious woman who survived the Lusitania disaster. Recently jilted by his fiancé, Paul Gascoyne takes a job as a tutor to the patients at the Trudeau Sanitarium in upstate New York. There, in...

A year after the death of his wife, John Cardinal has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold case files and platonic movie nights with colleague Lise Delorme. But then the decapitated bodies of two people are found in a summer home on Trout Lake - visitors from Russia attend...

When John Cardinal's wife Catherine dies with a suicide note in her own handwriting and no evidence of foul play, no one is surprised. But John is devastated. Cardinal enlists the help of Catherine's psychiatrist to help him figure out who is behind the note, and, as he investiga...

Max, a master thief, and his nephew, Owen, spend the summer touring the American southwest on a journey that will see Owen educated in the ways of a thief, the rescue of a Vegas waitress, on the run from other thieves and Owen's slow realization that the person he loves the most ...

In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman suspected of supporting guerilla forces is detained by a government torture squad. A bookish new recruit, Victor Peña, is assigned to assist in her interrogation. Now, Victor must consider the choices he will make in the fate of the young woma...

"When Giles Blunt|́|s first crime novel appeared, the Toronto Star said it |́|immediately raises the bar of Canadian crime fiction.|́| The Globe and Mail calls him |́|a master storyteller,|́| and fans of Blunt|́|s fiction are familiar with his ability to shape a tense narrative f...

Master crime novelist Giles Blunt is back with a standalone novel of penetrating psychological suspense. Turning the screw tighter on every page, he delivers an intricately plotted story of jealousy and obsession that rivals the best of Patricia Highsmith and Gillian Flynn. ...

A shake of the dark head, a shudder in the shoulders. Another tiny splash on the linoleum floor. Husband murdered, and now her daughter too. The Inuit, it is said, have forty different words for snow. Never mind about snow, Cardinal mused, what people really need is forty words f...

Tooling across the American southwest in their giant Winnebago, Max and his nephew, Owen, seem harmless enough, the actorly old fellow spouting Shakespeare like a faucet while his young charge trots him through select tourist destinations along the road. But appearances, as you m...

A master crime writer trains every weapon in his arsenal on a crime against humanity. A literary novel that treads fearlessly into one of recent history's most shocking moral crucibles. In 1980s El Salvador, a young woman is detained in a government torture squad's head-quarter...