The Wandering Soul Murders: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery: 3 - Softcover

Bowen, Gail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771013191 ISBN 13: 9780771013195

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 2011

Synopsis

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 third mystery, The Wandering Soul Murders.

Joanne is stunned and saddened by the news that the dead woman, at seventeen, was already a veteran of the streets. When, just twenty-four hours later, her son's girlfriend is found dead, drowned in a lake in Saskatchewan's Qu'Appelle Valley, Joanne's sunny world is shattered. Her excitement about Mieka's upcoming marriage, her involvement in the biography she is writing, even her pleasure at her return to Regina all fade as she finds herself drawn into a twilight world where money can buy anything and there are always people willing to pay.

About this title

Review:

"With her rare talent for plumbing emotional pain, Bowen makes you feel the shock of murder."
-Kirkus Reviews

"Bowen...pulls her complicated story together around a shocking and all-too-realistic secret....Her best book to date."
-Globe and Mail

About the Author:

GAIL BOWEN's Joanne Kilbourn mysteries have made her one of Canada's most popular crime-fiction writers. The first book in the series, Deadly Appearances (1990), was nominated for the W.H. SmithBooks in Canada Award for best first novel. It was followed by Murder at the Mendel (1991), The Wandering Soul Murders (1992), A Colder Kind of Death (which won the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel of 1995), A Killing Spring (1996), Verdict in Blood (1998), Burying Ariel (2000), The Glass Coffin (2002), The Last Good Day (2004), and The Endless Knot (2006). Bowen has also written five plays that have been produced across Canada, and one, The World According to Charlie D, for CBC Radio. Now retired from teaching at the First Nations University, Bowen lives in Regina.

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0771013191
• ISBN 13: 9780771013195
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232