By the Time You Read This: A Novel - Softcover

Named Best Mystery of the Year by The Globe & Mail

In Algonquin Bay, Detective John Cardinal suffers a devastating loss. He arrives at a grisly crime scene only to discover that the victim is his own wife, who left a suicide note at the scene. But when Cardinal begins to receive a series of threatening letters, he suspects that his wife may not have taken her own life—and that there may be more to her suicide note than meets the eye.

BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS

While Cardinal takes time to grieve, his partner, Sargeant Lise Delorme, is investigating a high-profile sex crime involving a young girl whose abuse is being broadcast online—and who appears to be a resident of Algonquin Bay. Things are heating up in this quiet, costal town as both Delorme and Cardinal find themselves tracking predators so diabolical that the accepted bounds of criminal justice no longer apply....

Giles Blunt grew up in North Bay, Ontario. After spending over twenty years in New York City, he now lives in Toronto. He has written scripts for Law & Order and he is the author of four John Cardinal novels, including Forty Words for Sorrow, for which he won The British Crime Writers' Macallan Silver Dagger Award, and the most recent By the Time You Read This, which was short-listed for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the most prestigious crime fiction award in the world.