Ratings
Rated: 2 times. Average rating 5
Description
FIRST PRINTING: 5000 AboutCrime Machine: NATIONAL BESTSELLER (as reported on BookNet Canada's list of national bestsellers for September 10, 2010, September 21, 2010 and January 11, 2011); Margaret Cannon's Deadly Dozen [2010] ABOUT A NATIONAL TREASURE, GILES BLUNT: "[Giles Blunt's novels] stand as landmarks in what we might think of as the new Canadian crime wave. . . . John Cardinal is the quintessential modern Canadian crime fiction hero--the northern lawman reimagined." --Richard Poplak, The Walrus "Although over the last century Canadian mystery writers have achieved national and international standing with their genre . . . none are as exceptional, or as original, as Giles Blunt. . . . His economy of phrasing, his capacity for the dangerously exotic, his explorations of human depravity and his remarkable skill at empathy speak to his growing popularity and critical attention." --Telegraph Journal "His characters, even the lonely guy sitting by himself at the end of the bar, are wonderfully realistic; his pacing never flags . . . and he leaves the reader with not so much a story as a glimpse into a perfectly realized world. First-rate." --Booklist (starred review) "In a genre where writers often compete to create vile, loathsome villains perpetrating outrageous crimes, Blunt stands as a master craftsman who shows us not only darkness, but also decency." --Publishers Weekly "Blunt writes with the flashing grace of an ice skater skimming over a frozen pond." --The New York Times Book Review HIS PEERS PRAISE HIM: "Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist." --Lee Child "Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent." --Tony Hillerman "Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon." --Jonathan Kellerman
Books by Giles Blunt:
- By the Time You Read This (2006)
- Until the Night (2013)
- Crime Machine (2011)
