Giles Blunt

Giles Blunt ( born 1952 in Windsor, Ontario ) is a Canadian thriller author.

Biography

Giles Blunt's parents emigrated after the Second World War from Warwickshire in England to Canada. The family lived first in Southwestern Ontario, in the small town of Amherstburg and moved when he was ten years old, to North Bay. Located in northeastern Ontario city on Lake Nipissing serves as a template for the location of Algonquin Bay, the scene of Blunts crime novels to his protagonist Detective John Cardinal.

After high school, he studied English literature at the University of Toronto in Mississauga ( completion 1975). He has published poems, wrote a unveröffentlichbaren avant-garde novel. In 1980 he moved to New York, where he lived for 22 years. He now lives in Toronto.

Reception

Blunt worked on scripts for the TV series Night Heat and Street Legal, he wrote the pilot episode for the series The Smiling Mortician Diamonds and, with Robert Nathan, a series of Law & Order. His first novel, Cold Eye, was filmed under the title Les couleurs du diable by Alain Jessua. The Franco- Italian production, the tenth feature film of the director, had 1997 premiere.

Awards

  • 2000: Silver Dagger by the British Crime Writers' Association of Forty Words for Sorrow (German Frozen Souls )
  • 2004: Arthur Ellis Award - Best Novel category of the Crime Writers of Canada for The Delicate Storm ( dt Bloody Ice )
  • 2013: Arthur Ellis Award - Best Novel category of the Crime Writers of Canada for Until the Night

Works

  • Cold Eye. Arbor House, New York 1989, ISBN 1-557-10047-0. Before view. roman. Earthscan Publishers, Munich 1990. ISBN 3-426-01838-1.
  • Innocent lambs. Knaur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-50562-5.
  • Forty Words for Sorrow. Putnam, New York 2001, ISBN 0-399-14752-7. Frozen souls. Earthscan, Munich 2004. ISBN 3-426-62791-4.
  • Bloody Ice. Earthscan, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-426-19662- X.
  • Cold Moon. Earthscan, Munich 2006. ISBN 3-426-19663-8.
  • Icy heart. Earthscan, Munich 2007. ISBN 3-426-19757- X.
  • Eismord. Earthscan, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-426-19914-5.
  • Frozen souls. AME hearing, Berg 2007, ISBN 978-3-938046-73-9 ( 6 CDs, 442 mins, read by Olaf Pessler ).
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