GAIL BOWEN's 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 (1995) won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel; all sixteen previous books in the series have been enthusiastically reviewed. In 2008, Reader's Digest named Bowen Canada's Best Mystery Novelist; in 2009 she received the Derrick Murdoch Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. Bowen has also written plays that have been produced across Canada and on CBC Radio. Now retired from teaching at the First Nations University, Gail Bowen lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Praise for Gail Bowen and the Joanne Kilbourn series:
* "Remarkable . . ." --Toronto Star
* "In all of Canadian crime, Joanne and her creator are among the
most dependably enduring." --London Free Press
* "The reliable Bowen virtues -- deftly drawn characters, unusual
twists and turns of plot, plenty of authentic details about
contemporary Canadian life, and, of course, the irrepressible and
genteel upper-middle class sleuth, Joanne Kilbourn. . . .
Confirm[s] Bowen's growing reputation as 'the queen of Canadian
crime fiction.'" --Winnipeg Free Press
* "Regina author Gail Bowen has crafted such character studies that
one wants to linger with them, to watch their lives unfold, to bask
in the warmth, strength and wisdom of Joanne's character. . . .
Although most of Bowen's awards are in the crime-writing genre, her
own gift is as a storyteller, a gift she fortunately shares with
readers." --Vancouver Sun
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