Giles Blunt Books in Order
Giles Blunt has written 11 books, published between 1989 and 2025. The first book is Cold Eye (1989) and the newest is Bad Juliet (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 11
- Published
- 1989–2025
- Confirmed
- 11 of 11 titles
- Pages on record
- 2,796 in 9 of 11 books
- Reading time
- 47–70 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,796 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 11 titles with a page count on record.
Detective John Cardinal, working in Ontario alongside policewoman Lise Delorme, is the figure Giles Blunt returns to across his crime novels. Blunt, born in 1952, is a Canadian novelist, poet and screenwriter. His first book, Cold Eye (1989), is a psychological thriller set in the New York art world, filmed in France as Les Couleurs du diable in 1997. 11 catalogued books reach Bad Juliet (2025), among them Forty Words for Sorrow (2000), The Delicate Storm (2003) and Crime Machine (2010). Blunt remains actively publishing.
How many Giles Blunt books are there?
Giles Blunt has 11 books, released between 1989 and 2025. 6 of them belong to the John Cardinal series.
Giles Blunt Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 11 Giles Blunt books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 11989–3/4
- 220003683/4
- 320033523/4
- 42005–3/4
- 520063413/4
- 620082883/4
- 720092723/4
- 820103043/4
- 920121993/4
- 1020153203/4
- 1120253523/4
Giles Blunt books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
John Cardinal in order
6 booksGiles Blunt Standalone Novels
5 books5 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.
Do you have to read Giles Blunt books in order?
You only need to read Giles Blunt books in order within the John Cardinal series, which holds 6 of the 11 Giles Blunt books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Giles Blunt
Start with Cold Eye (1989), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Giles Blunt book?
Bad Juliet (2025) is the newest Giles Blunt book released so far.
Is there a new Giles Blunt book coming?
No next Giles Blunt book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Giles Blunt at a glance
- Still publishing
- Giles Blunt published a book as recently as 2025.
- Release pace
- Giles Blunt books have appeared about one every 4 years on average.
- Length
- 2,796 pages across the 9 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 320 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Giles Blunt books, 6 of 11, were published in the 2000s.
What the Giles Blunt books are about
10 of the 11 Giles Blunt books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: john cardinal (fictitious character) is tagged on 5 of 10. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- John Cardinal (Fictitious character) 5 of 10 books
- Police 4 of 10 books
- Mystery & detective 3 of 10 books
- American literature 2 of 10 books
- Lise Delorme (Fictitious character) 2 of 10 books
- Ontario 2 of 10 books