A new US deal for Blunt

Giles Blunt, whose Algonquin Bay novels are fast becoming among my favorites, has switched US publishers for his next books:

Giles Blunt’s BY THE TIME YOU READ THIS, the fourth novel in the John

Cardinal series set in Algonquin Bay Ontario, for publication in winter

2007, and a stand-alone crime novel set in New York City, for

publication in spring 2008, to Jennifer Barth at Holt and Matthew Shear

at St. Martin’s for paperback, by Helen Heller at the Helen Heller

Agency(US).

I’m not altogether surprised to hear this, as Blunt’s previous publisher seemed a bit slow on the mark to get the word out about the books in this country (unlike in Canada and the UK, where he’s far better known.) Here’s hoping Holt, which doesn’t publish a lot of crime novelists but picks good ones when they do (including Joseph Kanon and Alafair Burke) increases his profile to what it ought to be.