Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay, Ontario, and now lives in New York City. He’s written scripts for Law & Order, Street Legal and Night Heat. He is at work on his next crime novel, The Delicate Storm, also set in the fictional town of Algonquin Bay, and featuring John Cardinal.

‘Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily as heat…and that Giles Blunt is a really tremendous crime novelist’ Lee Child‘One of the finest crime novels I’ve ever read. Giles Blunt writes with uncommon grace, style and compassion and he plots like a demon. This book has it all – unforgettable characters, beautiful language, throat-constricting suspense’ Jonathan Kellerman‘A taut and enthralling tale that is as dark as the Canadian winter setting is cold. Humane, intelligent and gripping, Forty Words for Sorrow is a haunting journey into the human heart in all its complexities’ Val McDermid‘A fine debut that deserves to do well, and promises much from a talented new author’ Jim Driver, Time Out‘A superior Canadian police procedural with an evocative sense of place: the frozen lakes and forests are as integral to the plot as the flawed detective … an impressive achievement’ Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian