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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The Nesting Dolls
Hardcover | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-1275-4 (0-7710-1275-6)
August 17, 2010 | $29.99
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
Hardcover | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-1275-4 (0-7710-1275-6)
August 17, 2010 | $29.99
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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 Brutal Heart
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1688-2 (0-7710-1688-3)
April 14, 2009 | $19.99
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 | 336 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1688-2 (0-7710-1688-3)
April 14, 2009 | $19.99
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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...
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The Brutal Heart
Hardcover | 336 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1687-5 (0-7710-1687-5)
August 12, 2008 | $29.99
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
Hardcover | 336 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1687-5 (0-7710-1687-5)
August 12, 2008 | $29.99
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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.
The Endless Knot
Paperback | 432 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1658-5 (0-7710-1658-1)
August 21, 2007 | $10.99
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
Paperback | 432 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1658-5 (0-7710-1658-1)
August 21, 2007 | $10.99
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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
hardcover.
The Endless Knot
Hardcover | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1654-7 (0-7710-1654-9)
August 22, 2006 | $32.99
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
Hardcover | 304 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1654-7 (0-7710-1654-9)
August 22, 2006 | $32.99
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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
paperback.
The Further Investigations of Joanne Kilbourn
Trade Paperback | 752 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-1469-7 (0-7710-1469-4)
February 28, 2006 | $24.99
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...
Written by Gail Bowen
Trade Paperback | 752 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-1469-7 (0-7710-1469-4)
February 28, 2006 | $24.99
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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...
The Last Good Day
Paperback | 352 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1468-0 (0-7710-1468-6)
September 13, 2005 | $10.99
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
Paperback | 352 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1468-0 (0-7710-1468-6)
September 13, 2005 | $10.99
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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 Early Investigations of Joanne Kilbourn
Trade Paperback | 720 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1467-3 (0-7710-1467-8)
September 7, 2004 | $24.99
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...
Written by Gail Bowen
Trade Paperback | 720 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1467-3 (0-7710-1467-8)
September 7, 2004 | $24.99
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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...
The Glass Coffin
Paperback | 352 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1477-2 (0-7710-1477-5)
October 21, 2003 | $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
Paperback | 352 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective; Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction
978-0-7710-1477-2 (0-7710-1477-5)
October 21, 2003 | $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...
Burying Ariel
Paperback | 272 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-1498-7 (0-7710-1498-8)
September 25, 2001 | $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
Paperback | 272 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Fiction - Mystery & Detective
978-0-7710-1498-7 (0-7710-1498-8)
September 25, 2001 | $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...
A Colder Kind of Death
Paperback | 224 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1495-6 (0-7710-1495-3)
January 4, 2001 | $9.99
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
Paperback | 224 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1495-6 (0-7710-1495-3)
January 4, 2001 | $9.99
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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...
Also available as a
paperback.
The Wandering Soul Murders
Paperback | 216 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1494-9 (0-7710-1494-5)
January 4, 2001 | $9.99
Murder is the last thing on Joanne Kilbourn’s mind on a perfect morning in May. Then the phone rings, and she learns that her daughter Mieka has found the corpse of a young woman in an alley near her store. So begins Joanne’s chilling collision with evil in Gail Bowen’s riveting...
Written by Gail Bowen
Paperback | 216 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1494-9 (0-7710-1494-5)
January 4, 2001 | $9.99
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Murder is the last thing on Joanne Kilbourn’s mind on a perfect morning in May. Then the phone rings, and she learns that her daughter Mieka has found the corpse of a young woman in an alley near her store. So begins Joanne’s chilling collision with evil in Gail Bowen’s riveting...
Murder at the Mendel
Paperback | 216 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1492-5 (0-7710-1492-9)
April 8, 2000 | $9.99
As a child Joanne was friends with Sally Love and her parents, but the friendship languished after Sally’s father died and she moved away, eventually becoming a very controversial artist. When the Mendel Gallery opens an exhibition of Sally’s work, Joanne is eager to attend and to renew their friendship. But...
Written by Gail Bowen
Paperback | 216 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1492-5 (0-7710-1492-9)
April 8, 2000 | $9.99
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As a child Joanne was friends with Sally Love and her parents, but the friendship languished after Sally’s father died and she moved away, eventually becoming a very controversial artist. When the Mendel Gallery opens an exhibition of Sally’s work, Joanne is eager to attend and to renew their friendship. But...
A Killing Spring
Paperback | 272 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1486-4 (0-7710-1486-4)
September 6, 1997 | $8.99
Gail Bowen, winner of the 1995 Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel for her last Joanne Kilbourn mystery, A Colder Kind of Death, is back – with her most daring mystery to date.
In the horrifying opening paragraph of A Killing Spring, Reed Gallagher, the head of the School of Journalism...
Written by Gail Bowen
Paperback | 272 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
978-0-7710-1486-4 (0-7710-1486-4)
September 6, 1997 | $8.99
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Gail Bowen, winner of the 1995 Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel for her last Joanne Kilbourn mystery, A Colder Kind of Death, is back – with her most daring mystery to date.
In the horrifying opening paragraph of A Killing Spring, Reed Gallagher, the head of the School of Journalism...
A Colder Kind of Death
Paperback | 232 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction - Movie or Television Tie-In
978-0-7710-1483-3 (0-7710-1483-X)
September 2, 1995 | $9.99
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
Paperback | 232 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths; Fiction - Movie or Television Tie-In
978-0-7710-1483-3 (0-7710-1483-X)
September 2, 1995 | $9.99
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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...
Also available as a
paperback.
