“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."
The Wait Is Over
The Eagerly Anticipated New Novel By Award-Winning Author Giles Blunt
News & Upcoming Events
The County Writes, The County Reads
99.3 County FM, with host Lynn Pickering
August 3, 2025, 12 Noon
Bad Juliet Canadian Release Date!
August 5th, 2025
Here and Now, CBC Radio 99.1 FM
August 5, 2025, 3:00 PM
Canadian Launch, Noonan's Pub
August 6, 2025, 6:00 PM
North Bay Public Library
August 14, 2025, 6:00 PM
Drunk Fiction, The Caledonian
August 26, 2025, 6:00 PM
Bad Juliet US Release Date!
September 9, 2025
Books and Authors, Uxbridge
September 25, 2025, 7:00 PM
Thin Air Festival, Winnipeg
September 26, 2025
Severn Public Library, Coldwater
October 4, 2025, 1:00 PM
Bad Juliet UK Release Date!
October 16, 2025
Type Books / Junction Reads
Reading/signing with two other authors TBA
December 7, 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.
