books by Gail Bowen

books by Gail Bowen

books:

Gail Bowen

Gail Bowen

McClelland & Stewart, 2003

Canadian in every way
It's always a pleasure to meet up with Canadian sleuth Joanne Kilburn. Complex characters combined with a fast moving plot keep the reader guessing until the last page. Bodies and clues abound as do Canadian icons such as Tim Hortons, CBC Radio and national TV shows. ...

The Brutal Heart (Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries)
Gail Bowen

McClelland & Stewart, 2008

The bestselling Gail Bowen returns with a gripping story of marriage, politics, sex, and murder. With a general election just weeks away, Joanne Kilbourn is following the campaign of Ginny Monaghan, a woman who has her eyes set on the leadership of the federal Conservative Party and whose success depends, not so much on the election-day poll, but ...

A Killing Spring (Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries)

Gail Bowen

McClelland & Stewart, 1997

This is a very literate mystery, well written & well plotted
I'm very happy to have discovered this Canadian mystery writer. This mystery is part of a series set in Regina, Saskatchewan. Bowen's "detective" is Joanne Kilbourn, a middle-aged widow who is a political science professor at the Univerity of Regina, and who is ...

A Colder Kind of Death (Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries)

Gail Bowen

McClelland & Stewart, 2001

My New Favorite Series
I came across the first Kilbourn mystery by chance and enjoyed it enough that I looked for more by Bowen at a local bookstore. Couldn't find any and finally ordered several at one time from Amazon and read them in order. I love the series--was sad to read the last ...

The Endless Knot: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery (Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries)

Gail Bowen

McClelland & Stewart, 2007

This is my lucky day -- I just discovered Gail Bowen!
As an author, editor and voracious reader, I love to discover Canadian writers. The other day I stumbled upon Gail Bowen and began reading her ever so literary mystery, The Endless Knot. I couldn't put it down. The characters were well developed and imminently ...

Last Good Day, The: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery (Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries)
Gail Bowen

McClelland & Stewart, 2005

The ninth novel of Gail Bowen?s popular series finds Canada?s favourite amateur sleuth, Joanne Kilbourn, on holiday at a cottage borrowed from a lawyer friend, one of a cluster of summer homes owned by lawyers from the same prestigious firm. When one of them kills himself the night after a long talk with Joanne, she is pushed into investigating ...

Burying Ariel (Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries)

Gail Bowen

McClelland & Stewart, 2001

One of the best "Joanne Kilbourn" mysteries!
For her creation, and maintenance, of a heroine who is not in the early years of her life, Gail Bowen deserves a lot of credit. Joanne Kilbourn, first introduced to us in "Deadly Appearances" has aged with grace and style by the time we get to "Burying Ariel," and ...

Verdict in Blood (Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries)

Gail Bowen

McClelland & Stewart, 1999

A truly wonderful series continues
Gail Bowen has done it again! Political Science professor/sleuth Joanne Kilbourn, in the latest in this excellent series from Canada, has a full plate, indeed. She manages to lead a full life with all its joy and despair. She's a "real" person; as I mentioned in a ...

The Early Investigations of Joanne Kilbourn
Gail Bowen

McClelland & Stewart, 2004

Award-winning mystery writer Gail Bowen?s first three masterful mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Joanne Kilbourn are now collected in a single volume. In Deadly Appearances , a successful politician sips his water before a speech at a picnic on a sweltering August afternoon and, within seconds, he is dead; in Murder at the Mendel , Joanne?s ...

Deadly Appearances

Gail Bowen

Douglas & Mcintyre Ltd, 1990

Deadly Appearances
Bowen's book opens with her protagonist's, Joanne Kilbourne's, second tragic and seemingly senseless loss, this time of her close friend, up-and-coming Regina politician Andy Boychuck. Not long before Joanne lost her husband in an apparently unmotivated violent crime ...

The Wandering Soul Murders (Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries)

Gail Bowen

McClelland & Stewart, 2001

Excitement in Regina!
The Wandering Soul Murders by Gail Bowen M&S Paperback 1992 This is my first Gail Bowen mystery with Joanne Kilbourn. The finding of a dead young girl in a garbage can next to Joanne's daughter's store is followed shortly by the apparent suicide her son's girlfriend ...

Love and Murder

Gail Bowen

St Martins Pr, 1993

I must read for mystery lovers and wheat belt residents.
If you are tired of mysteries set in New York, Los Angeles and other well know urban centres, this book is for you. It is set in a fresh, new region: the province of saskatchewan in Canada. Yet it could be North or South dakota, Iowa or Nebraska. It has those ...

The Further Investigations of Joanne Kilbourn
Gail Bowen

McClelland & Stewart, 2006

This second Gail Bowen omnibus contains her next three masterful mysteries featuring Canada?s favourite amateur sleuth, Joanne Kilbourn. In A Colder Kind of Death , a prisoner is shot to death in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan penitentiary, and Joanne becomes a suspect when his wife is found strangled; in A Killing Spring , the School of ...

Murder at the Mendel (Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries)

Gail Bowen

McClelland & Stewart, 2000

Forty-something mom solves art community crime!
I chose to read this book because of its Saskatoon setting. It was instantly captivating to read about familiar streets and buildings. The Mendel Art Gallery and Spadina Crescent are signatures of Saskatoon. I enjoyed having a forty-something female - especially a ...