John Cardinal and Lise Delorme Series
The John Cardinal and Lise Delorme series by Giles Blunt consists of six novels, each set in the fictional town of Algonquin Bay. The series follows the adventures of detectives John Cardinal and Lise Delorme as they solve crimes and navigate the personal and professional challenges they face.
Books in this Series (6)
n the quiet Canadian town of Algonquin Bay, a frozen body has been found in an abandoned mine shaft. She is soon identified as Katie Pine, a teenager who had disappeared months ago. At the time, Detective John Cardinal insisted that Katie was no ordinary runaway. His relentless pursuit and refusal to give up on the case, and his lack of results, got…
A gruesome discovery in the wilderness north of Algonquin Bay leads detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme to a remote cabin that has served as an abattoir for a cold-blooded killer… But the same woods hide other horrors and soon a second body is discovered, naked and shrouded in ice. When one of the victims is identified as an American, the RCMP…
According to detective John Cardinal, the truly diabolical thing about blackflies is their stealthy silence; there is no warning and no chance to make a pre-emptive strike to prevent a bite. Every year at the beginning of May, they take over Algonquin Bay in Ontario, Canada. This spring, the blackflies aren’t the only visitors. A self-proclaimed shaman…
Autumn has arrived in Algonquin Bay, and with it an unusual spate of suicides. The most shocking yet is Cardinal’s wife who has succumbed to her battle with manic depression. As he takes time to grieve, his partner, Lise Delorme, handles an unsavory assignment - a young girl appears in a series of unspeakable photos being traded online, and background…
A year after the death of his beloved but troubled wife Catherine, John has moved into a new, but very humid, condo. He has fallen into an easy routine of work on cold case files and platonic movie nights with friend and colleague Lise Delorme. But the quiet of a snow-covered Algonquin Bay is shattered when the decapitated bodies of two people are…
At first this newly-dead body sprawled in a motel parking lot looks run of the mill; the corpse has a big boot print on his neck, and the likely suspect is his lover's outraged husband. But the lover has gone missing. Then Lise Delorme locates another body, that of a missing woman, a senator's wife from Ottawa, in the ruins of an abandoned hotel. She…