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The eleventh book in the Joanne Kilbourn series
With a general election just weeks away, Joanne Kilbourn is following the campaign of Ginny Monaghan, a woman who has her eyes set on the leadership of the federal Conservative Party and whose success depends, not so much on the election-day poll, but on the outcome of a custody battle she’s fighting with her ex. Joanne thinks this is perfect material for a TV program she’s putting together on women and party politics. Happy to be back in the political fray that used to be her life during her first marriage, Joanne is soon also glad of the distraction it provides. A local call girl has been murdered—a woman whose regular clientele included several of Regina’s most prominent lawyers, including—until he met Joanne—her own husband, Zach Shreve.
Her new marriage creaking under the strain of this revelation, Joanne throws herself into her project—and into finding out why the dead woman had started to threaten her clients with blackmail, an investigation that leads to the truth—and to death.
In The Brutal Heart, Bowen expertly mixes the ingredients of marriage, family, politics, and murder into a constantly surprising and compulsive story.
With a general election just weeks away, Joanne Kilbourn is following the campaign of Ginny Monaghan, a woman who has her eyes set on the leadership of the federal Conservative Party and whose success depends, not so much on the election-day poll, but on the outcome of a custody battle she’s fighting with her ex. Joanne thinks this is perfect material for a TV program she’s putting together on women and party politics. Happy to be back in the political fray that used to be her life during her first marriage, Joanne is soon also glad of the distraction it provides. A local call girl has been murdered—a woman whose regular clientele included several of Regina’s most prominent lawyers, including—until he met Joanne—her own husband, Zach Shreve.
Her new marriage creaking under the strain of this revelation, Joanne throws herself into her project—and into finding out why the dead woman had started to threaten her clients with blackmail, an investigation that leads to the truth—and to death.
In The Brutal Heart, Bowen expertly mixes the ingredients of marriage, family, politics, and murder into a constantly surprising and compulsive story.
The eleventh book in the Joanne Kilbourn series
With a general election just weeks away, Joanne Kilbourn is following the campaign of Ginny Monaghan, a woman who has her eyes set on the leadership of the federal Conservative Party and whose success depends, not so much on the election-day poll, ...
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GAIL BOWEN was an author, playwright, and educator best known for the acclaimed Joanne Kilbourn mystery series, spanning more than three decades and including twenty-four novels. The first Joanne Kilbourn mystery, Deadly Appearances (1990), was nominated for the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada Best First Novel Award and A Colder Kind of Death (1994) won the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel. In 2018, Bowen was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit and the Grand Master Award of Crime Writers of Canada. In 2009, she received the Derrick Murdoch Award from the Crime Writers of Canada, and in 2008, Reader’s Digest named Bowen Canada’s Best Mystery Novelist. Her plays have been produced across Canada and on CBC Radio. She was associate professor of English at First Nations University of Canada before retiring from teaching. Bowen lived in Regina, Saskatchewan.
GAIL BOWEN was an author, playwright, and educator best known for the acclaimed Joanne Kilbourn mystery series, spanning more than three decades and including twenty-four novels. The first Joanne Kilbourn mystery, Deadly Appearances (1990), was nominated for the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada Best Fi...
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