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Synopsis
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 it’s not so easy being Sally’s friend anymore, and soon Joanne finds herself ensnared in a web of intrigue and violence. When the director of a local private gallery is brutally murdered, Joanne finds that the past she and Sally share was far more complicated, and far more sordid, than she had realized.
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Review
"A tense, masterfully written character study; then the killing begins. . . . Bold and powerful."
-- Publishers Weekly
-- London Free Press "A highly literate mystery. . . . The brew of sex and art is intriguing."
-- Whig-Standard (Kingston) "A splendid novel."
-- Times Colonist (Victoria) "Exciting. . . . The art is described with delicious humour and all the characters are vivid."
-- Quill & Quire "Classic . . . with enough twists to qualify as a page turner. . . . Bowen and her genteel sleuth are here to stay."
-- StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
About the Author
With her Joanne Kilbourn mystery series, Gail Bowen has become “a name to reckon with in Canadian mystery letters” (Edmonton Journal). The first book in the series, Deadly Appearances, which was published in 1990, was nominated for the W.H. Smith-Books 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), and A Killing Spring (1996). Gail Bowen is also head of the English Department at the First Nations University of Canada.
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- PublisherMcClelland & Stewart Ltd
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0771014805
- ISBN 13 9780771014802
- BindingMass Market Paperback
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Murder at the Mendel : a Joanne Kilbourn Mystery
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Condition: Very Good. This U.S. debut by a Canadian writer is less a mystery than an elegant and painstaking examination of family ties and friendships, both battered beyon d recognition by time and willful egos. Sally Love has achieved fame and no toriety in the art world with her works of ``erotobiography.'' But she has suffered losses along the way: she's in the process of selling her gallery; has lost touch with her childhood friend, Joanne Kilbourn; and is estrange d from her husband, her mother and her daughter. A third of the novel is a tense, masterfully written character study; then the killings begin: the di sturbed gallery manager is ritually murdered, and one of the many irate pro testers outside the gallery where Sally's newest piece is on display is gun ned down. The author subverts the usual notions of plot, shifting narrative gears frequently to dwell on a telling detail or an evocative aside. The e ffect, while a mite unsettling, is bold and powerful. Subsequent deaths res ult in too few suspects but by then the quixotic, volatile relationships co nnecting Sally to Joanne and to the rest of the world have firmly seized th e reader's imagination. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000001500
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Murder at the Mendel (Joanne Kilbourn Mystery Ser.)
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