Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Quarter | 2018 | John Jantunen | Buy |
| 2 | In for a Dime | 2022 | John Jantunen | Buy |
John Jantunen’s Tildon Chronicles is set in the fictional town of Tildon. No Quarter (2018) opens the two-book series, and In for a Dime (2022) returns to the same setting. Both books deal with crime and tension in a small community.
No Quarter follows multiple characters whose lives converge around a violent event, and the narrative moves between their perspectives. In for a Dime picks up the threads four years later, with the consequences of the first book still rippling through Tildon. Jantunen writes in a raw, literary style that treats crime fiction as a lens for examining poverty, addiction, and isolation in rural Ontario.
The four-year gap between the two novels gives the series room to let its characters age and change. Readers who like crime fiction that is more interested in place and people than in procedural detail will appreciate Jantunen’s approach.