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BookBrowse Reviews By the Time You Read This: 'The result is the most beautifully written, deeply felt page-turner of the year.' - Kirkus Reviews

By the Time You Read This
A Novel
by Giles Blunt
Paperback, Jul 2008,
352 pages.
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By The Time You Read This is the fourth in Giles Blunt's excellent series set in Algonquin Bay, a loosely disguised version of North Bay, Ontario, where Blunt grew up. Long time visitors to BookBrowse may remember us profiling Forty Words For Sorrow in 2001, the first volume in the series which introduced Canadian Detective John Cardinal and his photographer wife Catherine, who suffers from bipolar disorder.

Catherine's illness and her regular hospitalizations have been an ongoing thread through the series, but within a few pages of By The Time You Read This we are shocked to discover that Cardinal will never have to worry about his beloved wife's illness again when she takes a fatal fall from the top of an...
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Giles Blunt was born in 1952 in Windsor, Ontario, and grew up in North Bay, Ontario. He describes his parents as being "so English that the space on their passports for citizenship could only be filled in" British Beyond Belief". He spent most of his education at a Catholic boys' school called Scollard Hall, moving to a "regular school", Algonquin Composite, for his last two years.

His career started with poetry which was published in various publications including Grain and Poetry Canada. Then...
This review was originally published in February 2007, and has been updated for the July 2008 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.
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