A Colder Kind of Death: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - Rilegato

Bowen, Gail

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ISBN 10: 0771014821 ISBN 13: 9780771014826

Casa editrice: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1995

Riassunto

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 Trans-Canada 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 panellist 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.

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Recensione

“The fourth and positively best novel in the Joanne Kilbourn series....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 classic Bowen, engrossing and finally, believable.”
–Mystery Review

“A denouement filled with enough curves to satisfy any mystery fan.”
–Saskatoon Star-Phoenix

L'autore

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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• Editore: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0771014821
• ISBN 13: 9780771014826
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 240