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“When I first learned the remarkable history of Saranac Lake and the pioneering sanitarium that put it on the world map a hundred years ago, I knew that I would be writing a novel set in that extraordinary place and time. Bad Juliet may represent a new direction for my fiction, but I wrote it with my usual hope and aim of telling the most compelling story possible. Sarah Ballard, the “Bad Juliet” of the title, has been in my heart and head since 2017, and I hope that she will soon come to live in your hearts too.
— Giles Blunt
The Wait Is Over
The Eagerly Anticipated New Novel By Award-Winning Author Giles Blunt


News & Upcoming Events
Bad Juliet Canadian Release Date
August 5th, 2025
Bad Juliet US Release Date
September 2nd, 2025
Bad Juliet UK Release Date
October 16, 2025
More to come...

About
Giles Blunt
GILES BLUNT grew up in North Bay, Ontario, a small city similar to the Algonquin Bay of the John Cardinal novels. After studying English literature at the University of Toronto, he moved to New York City, where he lived for the next twenty years, before moving back to Toronto in 2002. The first Cardinal novel, Forty Words for Sorrow, won the British Crime Writers Silver Dagger award, and the second, The Delicate Storm, won the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis award for best novel, as did the latest, Until the Night. He has been twice longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC award.












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