Synopses & Reviews
Award-winning mystery writer Gail Bowens 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, Joannes childhood friend may have a far more complicated, far more sordid, and far more deadly past than Joanne knows about; and in The Wandering Soul Murders, a centre for street kids holds a dark and disturbing secret, forcing Joanne to act when her own children are drawn into a web of intrigue that will leave you breathless.
About the Author
With her Joanne Kilbourn mystery series,
Gail Bowen has become “a name to reckon with in Canadian mystery letters” (
Edmonton Journal). The first book in the series,
Deadly Appearances, which was published in 1990, was nominated for the W.H. Smith-Books in Canada award for best first novel. It was followed by
Murder at the Mendel (1991),
The Wandering Soul Murders (1992),
A Colder Kind of Death (which won the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel of 1995), and
A Killing Spring (1996). Gail Bowen is also head of the English Department at the First Nations University of Canada.
From the Hardcover edition.