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Deadly Appearances

Name: Deadly Appearances
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Author: Gail Bowen
ISBN: 9780771013249

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Published on May 17, 2011 | 304 Pages

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Andy Boychuk is a successful Saskatchewan politician—until one sweltering August afternoon when the party faithful gather at a picnic. All of the key people in Boychuk’ s life—family, friends, enemies —are there. Boychuk steps up to the podium to make a speech, takes a sip of water, and drops dead. Joanne Kilbourn, in her début as Canada’s leading amateur sleuth, is soon on the case, delving into Boychuk’s history. What she finds are a Bible college that’s too good to be true, a woman with a horrifying and secret past, and a murderer who’s about to strike again.

Shortlisted for the Books in Canada / W.H. Smith First Novel Award

“A terse, twist-a-minute mystery.”
—Vancouver Sun

“Gail Bowen is one of Canada’s literary treasures.”
—Ottawa Citizen

“Add Gail Bowen to the growing, long list of Canadians turning out superior mystery stories. . . . Ms. Bowen charms the reader with a compelling heroine, some intriguing side figures and a suitably murky mystery, and combines it all with fine writing and acceptable surprises along the way.”
—The Whig-Standard, Kingston

“In Joanne Kilbourn, Gail Bowen has created a narrator who is bright, thoughtful, wryly entertaining, and warm without being sappy. . . . I found this a very hard book to put down.”
—Gary Draper, Books in Canada

Author

Gail Bowen

GAIL BOWEN’s first Joanne Kilbourn mystery, Deadly Appearances (1990), was nominated for the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada Best First Novel Award, and A Colder Kind of Death (1995) won the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel; all 14 (and counting!) books in the series have been enthusiastically reviewed. In 2008, Reader’s Digest named Bowen Canada’s Best Mystery Novelist; in 2009, she received the Derrick Murdoch Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. Bowen has also written plays that have been produced across Canada and on CBC Radio. Now retired from teaching at the First Nations University, Bowen lives in Regina. www.gailbowen.com.

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