Gail Bowen
Gail Bowen’s Joanne Kilbourn mysteries have made her one of Canada’s most popular crime writers. The first book in the series, Deadly Appearances (1990), was nominated for the W.H. Smith — Books in Canada award for best first novel. Bowen has also written five plays that have been produced across Canada, and several of her mysteries have been made into TV movies starring Wendy Crewson as Joanne. Head of the English Department at the First Nations University of Canada, the Toronto-born Gail Bowen lives in Regina.
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Kaleidoscope
Hardcover | 336 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1689-9 (0-7710-1689-1)
April 24, 2012 | $29.99
The thirteenth in Gail Bowen's beloved and award-winning Joanne Kilbourn mystery series promises to be the best of them all: some very bad things happen very, very close to home, and Joanne may never be quite the same again.
"Security for any one of us lies in greater abundance for all of...
Written by Gail Bowen
Hardcover | 336 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1689-9 (0-7710-1689-1)
April 24, 2012 | $29.99
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The thirteenth in Gail Bowen's beloved and award-winning Joanne Kilbourn mystery series promises to be the best of them all: some very bad things happen very, very close to home, and Joanne may never be quite the same again.
"Security for any one of us lies in greater abundance for all of...
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Kaleidoscope
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1666-0 (0-7710-1666-2)
April 24, 2012 | $15.99
The thirteenth in Gail Bowen's beloved and award-winning Joanne Kilbourn mystery series promises to be the best of them all: some very bad things happen very, very close to home, and Joanne may never be quite the same again.
"Security for any one of us lies in greater abundance for all of...
Written by Gail Bowen
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1666-0 (0-7710-1666-2)
April 24, 2012 | $15.99
The thirteenth in Gail Bowen's beloved and award-winning Joanne Kilbourn mystery series promises to be the best of them all: some very bad things happen very, very close to home, and Joanne may never be quite the same again.
"Security for any one of us lies in greater abundance for all of...
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Brutal Heart
Trade Paperback | 344 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-0994-5 (0-7710-0994-1)
August 9, 2011 | $16.99
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...
Written by Gail Bowen
Trade Paperback | 344 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-0994-5 (0-7710-0994-1)
August 9, 2011 | $16.99
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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...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
The Brutal Heart
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-1-55199-233-4 (1-55199-233-7)
August 9, 2011 | $12.99
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...
Written by Gail Bowen
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-1-55199-233-4 (1-55199-233-7)
August 9, 2011 | $12.99
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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...
Also available as a
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
The Endless Knot
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1347-8 (0-7710-1347-7)
August 9, 2011 | $16.99
The tenth novel in the highly acclaimed Joanne Kilbourn series features the murderous fallout of a tell-all book on the troubled adult children of Canadian celebrities.
When journalist Kathryn Morrissey’s sensational book on the lives of thirteen adult children of prominent Canadians is published, one of the parents, Sam Parker, is furious...
Written by Gail Bowen
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1347-8 (0-7710-1347-7)
August 9, 2011 | $16.99
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The tenth novel in the highly acclaimed Joanne Kilbourn series features the murderous fallout of a tell-all book on the troubled adult children of Canadian celebrities.
When journalist Kathryn Morrissey’s sensational book on the lives of thirteen adult children of prominent Canadians is published, one of the parents, Sam Parker, is furious...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Endless Knot
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-1-55199-246-4 (1-55199-246-9)
August 9, 2011 | $12.99
The tenth novel in the highly acclaimed Joanne Kilbourn series features the murderous fallout of a tell-all book on the troubled adult children of Canadian celebrities.
When journalist Kathryn Morrissey’s sensational book on the lives of thirteen adult children of prominent Canadians is published, one of the parents, Sam Parker, is furious...
Written by Gail Bowen
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-1-55199-246-4 (1-55199-246-9)
August 9, 2011 | $12.99
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The tenth novel in the highly acclaimed Joanne Kilbourn series features the murderous fallout of a tell-all book on the troubled adult children of Canadian celebrities.
When journalist Kathryn Morrissey’s sensational book on the lives of thirteen adult children of prominent Canadians is published, one of the parents, Sam Parker, is furious...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Last Good Day
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1349-2 (0-7710-1349-3)
August 9, 2011 | $16.99
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...
Written by Gail Bowen
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1349-2 (0-7710-1349-3)
August 9, 2011 | $16.99
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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...
The Last Good Day
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-1-55199-617-2 (1-55199-617-0)
August 9, 2011 | $8.99
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...
Written by Gail Bowen
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-1-55199-617-2 (1-55199-617-0)
August 9, 2011 | $8.99
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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...
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
Burying Ariel
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1309-6 (0-7710-1309-4)
July 12, 2011 | $16.99
Joanne Kilbourn is looking forward to a relaxing weekend at the lake with her children and her new grandchild when murder once more wreaks havoc in Regina, Saskatchewan. A young colleague at the university where Joanne teaches is found stabbed to death in the basement of the library.
Ariel Warren was a...
Written by Gail Bowen
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1309-6 (0-7710-1309-4)
July 12, 2011 | $16.99
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Joanne Kilbourn is looking forward to a relaxing weekend at the lake with her children and her new grandchild when murder once more wreaks havoc in Regina, Saskatchewan. A young colleague at the university where Joanne teaches is found stabbed to death in the basement of the library.
Ariel Warren was a...
Burying Ariel
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-1-55199-615-8 (1-55199-615-4)
July 12, 2011 | $9.99
Joanne Kilbourn is looking forward to a relaxing weekend at the lake with her children and her new grandchild when murder once more wreaks havoc in Regina, Saskatchewan. A young colleague at the university where Joanne teaches is found stabbed to death in the basement of the library.
Ariel Warren was a...
Written by Gail Bowen
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-1-55199-615-8 (1-55199-615-4)
July 12, 2011 | $9.99
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Joanne Kilbourn is looking forward to a relaxing weekend at the lake with her children and her new grandchild when murder once more wreaks havoc in Regina, Saskatchewan. A young colleague at the university where Joanne teaches is found stabbed to death in the basement of the library.
Ariel Warren was a...
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
The Glass Coffin
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1305-8 (0-7710-1305-1)
July 12, 2011 | $16.99
In this chilling tale of the terrible power of the ties that both bind us and blind us, Gail Bowen has given us her best novel yet. Brimming with the author’s characteristic empathy for the troubled, The Glass Coffin explores the depth of tragedy that a camera’s neutral eye can capture...
Written by Gail Bowen
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1305-8 (0-7710-1305-1)
July 12, 2011 | $16.99
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In this chilling tale of the terrible power of the ties that both bind us and blind us, Gail Bowen has given us her best novel yet. Brimming with the author’s characteristic empathy for the troubled, The Glass Coffin explores the depth of tragedy that a camera’s neutral eye can capture...
The Glass Coffin
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-1-55199-616-5 (1-55199-616-2)
July 12, 2011 | $9.99
In this chilling tale of the terrible power of the ties that both bind us and blind us, Gail Bowen has given us her best novel yet. Brimming with the author’s characteristic empathy for the troubled, The Glass Coffin explores the depth of tragedy that a camera’s neutral eye can capture...
Written by Gail Bowen
eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-1-55199-616-5 (1-55199-616-2)
July 12, 2011 | $9.99
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In this chilling tale of the terrible power of the ties that both bind us and blind us, Gail Bowen has given us her best novel yet. Brimming with the author’s characteristic empathy for the troubled, The Glass Coffin explores the depth of tragedy that a camera’s neutral eye can capture...
Also available as a
paperback and a
trade paperback.
The Nesting Dolls
Trade Paperback | 312 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-1276-1 (0-7710-1276-4)
July 12, 2011 | $16.99
Just hours before her body is found in a car in a parking lot, a young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger and disappears. The stranger is the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband. One close look at the child suggests...
Written by Gail Bowen
Trade Paperback | 312 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-1276-1 (0-7710-1276-4)
July 12, 2011 | $16.99
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Just hours before her body is found in a car in a parking lot, a young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger and disappears. The stranger is the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband. One close look at the child suggests...
The Nesting Dolls
eBook | 336 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-1277-8 (0-7710-1277-2)
July 12, 2011 | $12.99
Just hours before her body is found in a car in a parking lot, a young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger and disappears. The stranger is the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband. One close look at the child suggests...
Written by Gail Bowen
eBook | 336 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-1277-8 (0-7710-1277-2)
July 12, 2011 | $12.99
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Just hours before her body is found in a car in a parking lot, a young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger and disappears. The stranger is the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband. One close look at the child suggests...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
A Colder Kind of Death
Trade Paperback | 248 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1317-1 (0-7710-1317-5)
June 21, 2011 | $16.99
When a prisoner is shot to death in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan penitentiary, Joanne Kilbourn finds herself haunted by a part of her past she wished had never happened. The dead prisoner is Kevin Tarpley, the man who six years earlier had brutally killed her politician husband, Ian, in...
Written by Gail Bowen
Trade Paperback | 248 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1317-1 (0-7710-1317-5)
June 21, 2011 | $16.99
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When a prisoner is shot to death in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan penitentiary, Joanne Kilbourn finds herself haunted by a part of her past she wished had never happened. The dead prisoner is Kevin Tarpley, the man who six years earlier had brutally killed her politician husband, Ian, in...
