Mystery Women Authors

Gail Bowen

Biography

Canadian born writer, Gail Bowen, is an English professor in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Books

Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries

Verdict in Blood (6)

While patrolling Wascana Park, the Regina Saskatchewan police find the murdered body of Judge Justine Blackwell sprawled across the Boy Scout Memorial. The victim, renowned for her brutal sentencing, has a note on her person containing the name of Hilda McCourt, a senior citizen visiting Joanne Kilbourn, whose phone number was also on the paper.

In recent months Judge Blackwell had begun to act strange. She talked with some of the individuals she put away behind bars and offered to help them. The Judge was so worried about her mental state, she asked Hilda to assess her mind. The issue soon becomes not who killed the Judge, but which of her wills is valid. The older document leaves everything to her children. The newer document, recently processed, bestows her estate to a halfway house for former convicts. Joanne begins to investigate the final days of the Judge without realizing that she has placed her own life in danger.

The sixth Kilbourn who-done-it is a wonderful mystery that feeds on the craving and naiveté of individuals. The story line is impressive and the characters, especially the octogenarian Hilda, add much depth to an already complex storyline. The insiders tour of Regina also provides much warmth (in spite of the climate) to a well written regional amateur sleuth tale. This is a series well worth reading. (Harriet Klausner Amazon.com)

Published McClleland & Stewart 1998

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Deadly Appearances (1)

Joanne is writing speeches for a Saskatchewan politician and he is murdered while delivering a speech at a rally.

Published McClleland & Stewart reprint 1997 (originally 1990)

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Murder at the Mendel (Love and Murder in USA) (2)

Sally Love's exhibition at the Mendel Gallery includes a mural depicting the private parts of her past lovers, and when protestors appear in droves, two dead bodies are found, and Sally's childhood friend, Joanne Kilbourn, must investigate the crimes.

Published 1991 (out of print)

The Wandering Soul Murders (3)

First her daughter finds a body, then her son's girlfriend apparently commits suicide, now reluctant sleuth and university Professor Joanne Kilbourn finds herself embroiled in a deadly case involving a teddy bear tattoo.

Published 1994 (out of print)

A Colder Kind of Death (4)

The author of The Wandering Soul Murders returns with reluctant sleuth, Joanne Kilbourn, investigating her husband's murder, becoming a suspect in another murder, and facing the possibility that her husband had a child she did not know about.

Published McCllelland & Stewart 1995

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A Killing Spring (5)

The fates just won't ignore Joanne Kilbourn - single mom, university professor and Canada's favourite amateur sleuth. When the head of the School of Journalism is found dead - wearing women's lingerie - it falls to Joanne to tell his new wife. And that's only the beginning of Joanne's woes. A few days later the school is vandalised and then an unattractive and unpopular student in Joanne's class goes missing. When she sets out to investigate the student's disappearance, Joanne steps unknowingly into an on-campus world of fear, deceit and murder.

Published McCllelland & Stewart 1996

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