A COLDER KIND OF DEATH, A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery by Gail Bowen (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Gail Bowen. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, ON., 1994, 1st Edition. FLAT SIGNED by the Author on title page. Printed in Canada. Very Good Condition HARDCOVER Book, with minor stain on top-edge, not affecting pages. Very Good Condition Dust Jacket, not clipped. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.25 x 6.5 inch, 233 pages.

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.

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?

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For another Signed Gail Bowen Novel on GC&C, please see: BURYING ARIEL, A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery by Gail Bowen (1st Ed. SIGNED – Gillmore Coins & Collectibles