Order of John Cardinal Books
John Cardinal and Lise Delorme are the protagonists in a series of crime thriller/mystery novels by Canadian novelist Giles Blunt. The pair of detectives work for the Algonquin Bay Police Department in Northern Ontario. “Algonquin Bay” is a fictional town heavily based on North Bay, Ontario (the city the author grew up in), likely named after the nearby provincial park.
Giles Blunt began his John Cardinal series in 2000 with the novel Forty Words for Sorrow. The series is currently ongoing. Below is a list of Giles Blunt’s John Cardinal & Lisa Delorme books in order of when they were originally published (which is the same as their chronological order):
Publication Order of John Cardinal Books
Forty Words for Sorrow | (2000) | |
The Delicate Storm | (2003) | |
Black Fly Season | (2005) | |
By the Time You Read This / The Fields of Grief | (2006) | |
Crime Machine | (2010) | |
Until the Night | (2012) |
Note: By the Time You Read This was published as The Fields of Grief in the UK.