Blackfly Season

Giles Blunt

Jan 2010 · The John Cardinal Crime Series Book 3 · Seal Books

About this ebook

Book 3 in the John Cardinal series

It’s spring in Algonquin Bay, and the blackflies are driving people a little mad. Detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme have a strange case on their hands: a young woman has wandered bug-bitten out of the Algonquin Bay bush with a gunshot wound to the head. Cardinal becomes obsessed with finding out who the woman is and who is trying to kill her. When the body of a local biker, Wombat Guthrie, is found in a cave, it seems the two cases are related—and the link appears to be a drug dealer and self-proclaimed shaman who calls himself Red Bear.

Ratings and reviews

Great. Especially relatable if you're from Ontario, love a good murder mystery, have dealt with addiction or mental illness in your family, have a family, don't like blackflies.....need I go on? Great characters, well fleshed out, plot twists. Great summer at the cottage, swatting at your own bugs or anywhere read. Loved it. Off to order more Giles Blunt, so glad I found him!

About the author

GILES BLUNT grew up in North Bay, Ontario, and spent twenty years in New York City as a novelist and a scriptwriter for such shows as Law and Order, Street Legal and Night Heat, before making his home in Toronto. He is the author of the  bestselling Cardinal crime series, featuring Algonquin Bay's John Cardinal and Lise Delorme, which has been made into a TV series for CTV. He is widely considered "one of Canada's top crime novelists" (The Globe and Mail) and among "crime drama's elite" (Publishers Weekly). He is a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel and a recipient of the British Crime Writers' Macallan Silver Dagger.