Giles Blunt's first John Cardinal novel, Forty Words for Sorrow, won Britain's Silver Dagger Award. The Delicate Storm won Canada's Arthur Ellis Award, for which the third novel, Blackfly Season, was also a finalist. The fourth entry in the series, By The Time You Read This, was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger. His next book is a crime novel set in the US, called No Such Creature, due out from Random House in the fall.

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Barbara Fradkin is a psychologist with a fascination for how we turn bad. Her gritty, Ottawa-based Inspector Green series debuted with Do or Die in 2000 and has won back-to-back Arthur Ellis Best Novel Awards for Fifth Son and Honour Among Men, something never before accomplished in the 25 years the award has been given out. "A series that has gone from strength to strength", says the Hamilton Spectator.

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Rick Blechta is a musician who writes crime fiction, or if you prefer, a crime writer who plays music. His sixth novel, A Case of You, has just been released, and the Hamilton Spectator said, "Blechta's sixth novel establishes him as a veteran of the mystery genre. A must-read for my 2008 list!" His fourth novel, Cemetery of the Nameless, was an Arthur Ellis finalist for Best Novel in 2006. He resides in Toronto and is married to, what else? A musician.

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