Gail Bowen
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 that there might be a family relationship, and soon the truth about the child Delia gave up for adoption years ago comes out. The boy must be Delia's grandson. Then his mother is found dead, sexually assaulted and murdered. Not only is there a killer on the loose, but the dead woman's partner is demanding custody of the child...
Gail Bowen
Charlie D is the host of a successful late-night radio call-in show. His listeners have a particularly intimate relationship with him and often reveal much about themselves, confident that he will honor their trust and that he can save them. In their minds, he is perfect: one of life’s winners. But Charlie feels he’s something of a fake. His easy confidence on-air belies the reality for a man born with a wine-colored birthmark that covers half his face. Love You to Death covers one hour on “The World According to Charlie D”—an hour during which he must both discover the long-time listener who is killing the people who trust him and attempt to come to terms with the man behind the birthmark...
Gail Bowen
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 on the outcome of a custody battle she’s fighting with her ex. Joanne thinks this is perfect material for a TV program she’s putting together on women and party politics. Happy to be back in the political fray that used to be her life during her first marriage, Joanne is soon also glad of the distraction it provides. A local call girl has been murdered — a woman whose regular clientele included several of Regina’s most prominent lawyers, including — until he met Joanne — her own husband, Zach Shreve...
The Endless Knot: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery
Gail Bowen
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 enough to take a pot shot at the author, grazing her shoulder. Charges are laid, and Joanne’s new beau, Zack Shreve, is hired by Parker as his defence counsel. On the day of the verdict, Morrissey is brutally murdered, and Joanne’s investigation quickly has her trying to unravel the endless knot of the relationship between parent and child...
The Last Good Day: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery
Gail Bowen
Joanne Kilbourn is 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 just what her neighbours are involved with, an investigation that has startling – and fatal – consequences...
Gail Bowen
Joanne Kilbourn's initial delight at her friend's impending wedding quickly sours when she learns that the filmmaker bridegroom has been widowed twice when the wives he hounded with his camera committed suicide. And when bodies start dropping, it becomes clear that joining the bridegroom's family may indeed be a lethal prospect...
Gail Bowen
It's not uncommon for an academic to get stabbed in the back, but when it literally happens to her colleague in the political science department, Ariel Warren, amateur sleuth Joanne Kilbourn is set to solve her seventh case. When it's discovered that Ariel was pregnant at the time of her death, an ex-lover, radio talk show host Charles Dowhanuik makes for an easy target. What complicates matters is that Charles is also the son of the ex-premier who is the newest member of the poli sci department...
Gail Bowen
Hilda McCourt is staying with her friend Joanne Kilbourn when they both get the news that their friend Judge Justine Blackwell has been battered to death in a public park. A group of ex-prisoners who had been incarcerated by the judge seem to have reasons to want Blackwell dead, but so do her three angry daughters, especially a former rock star and a discredited psychiatrist...
Gail Bowen
The head of the School of Journalism at the university where Joanne Kilbourn teaches, is found dead in a seedy rooming house. Suicide, the police say. But for Joanne, this death is just the first in a series of misfortunes that rock her life, both professional and personal. Badly shaken, Joanne struggles to carry on, and in doing so steps unknowingly into an on-campus world of fear and deceit and murder...
Gail Bowen
When her husband's murderer is shot to death in the exercise yard at the penitentiary, it dredges up all of Joanne's worst nightmares. Especially when the murderer's wife is found dead just days after and Joanne is the number one suspect...
Gail Bowen
Joanne Kilbourn is horrified when her grown daughter finds the body of a teenaged office cleaner hanging out of a dumpster. Although it looks as though she's another victim in a series of prostitute killings, significant details persuade police that it is a copycat murder...
Gail Bowen
When the director of a local private gallery is brutally murdered, Joanne finds that the past she and artist Sally Love share was far more complicated, and far more sordid, than she had realized...
Gail Bowen
Joanne still hasn't quite come to terms with the murder of her husband when politician Andy Boychuk, a family friend and one of her husband's closest colleagues, is murdered. Even though there seem to be few other suspects, Kilbourn is determined to clear Boychuk's wife, Eve, on whom all suspicions seem to be falling. But Joanne discovers that there are hidden secrets in Andy and Eve's past that someone doesn't want revealed, even if it means killing again...