A Colder Kind of Death - Softcover

Bowen, Gail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771014953 ISBN 13: 9780771014956

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

When a prisoner is shot to death in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan penitentiary, Joanne Kilbourn finds herself haunted by a part of her past she wished had never happened. The dead prisoner is Kevin Tarpley, the man who six years earlier had brutally killed her politician husband, Ian, in a seemingly senseless act alongside the TransCanada Highway.
The haunting takes on a more menacing cast several days later when Tarpley s sinister wife, Maureen, is discovered dead in a snow-swept Regina parking lot. A brightly coloured scarf is found wound tightly around her neck, a scarf that belongs to none other than Joanne Kilbourn. Soon this single mother, author, university professor, and TV-show panelist is deemed the number one suspect in Maureen Tarpley s demise.
Joanne knows there has to be a connection between these two murders. But what is it? A cryptic letter sent to Joanne by Kevin Tarpley just days before his death intimates that Ian Kilbourn s killing may not have been as senseless as first assumed. In fact, there are hints that some of Ian s political colleagues may have been involved. But how deeply and in what way?
Then there s the faded photograph of a pretty young woman and her baby that Joanne finds tucked in the wallet of her dead husband. Does it offer any clue to Ian s murder, or to the deaths of the Tarpleys? Warily, Joanne Kilbourn is forced to follow a tangled trail deep into a heartbreaking past she never knew existed.
A Colder Kind of Death is the fourth novel featuring Gail Bowen s reluctant sleuth, Joanne Kilbourn. With its deft mix of wry humour and mayhem, closely observed family scenes and gripping suspense, warm characterization and betrayal, it confirms Gail Bowen s stature as one of the greats of mystery fiction.

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Review

"A terrific story with a slick twist at the end." - "Globe and Mail"
"A delightful blend of vicious murder, domestic interactions, and political infighting that is guaranteed to entertain." - "Quill & Quire"

A terrific story with a slick twist at the end. Globe and Mail
A delightful blend of vicious murder, domestic interactions, and political infighting that is guaranteed to entertain. Quill & Quire"

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.

From the Hardcover edition."

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0771014953
• ISBN 13: 9780771014956
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback