The son of English expatriates, Giles Blunt grew up in Canada with most of his friends wondering why his parents seemed so posh.
He moved to New York in 1980, a transition that would enable him to write about Northern Ontario with the objectivity he needed.
His writing career began with poetry before he moved into screenplays and quickly found success writing for ‘Night Heat’ a Canadian cop show. His success enabled him to write an episode for the classic procedural ‘Law and Order’ “the single unalloyed good experience I had in television”.
His first novel, ‘Cold Eye’, a bleak Faustian tale set in the New York art world, was optioned by a well-known Hollywood figure and Giles was soon propelled into development hell. Eventually the film was made by the French. Despite earning him a small fortune, it was “the book that launched me from obscurity into outright failure”.
He returned to his Canadian crime novel project and Forty Words of Sorrow was published in the US and UK, picking up some of the most stunning reviews for a debut crime novel ever. The fourth in the series featuring detectives Cardinal and Delorme, ‘The Fields of Grief’, will be published in Christmas 2006.
