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"A rare sort of comfort food: characters whose commitment to tough ideals makes them worth caring about despite the secrets that can drive them to murder -- and worse."
— Kirkus Reviews
"A study in human nature craftily woven into an intriguing whodunit."
— Ottawa Citizen
"This tale of love and academic intrigue grabs the reader from the beginning."
— Globe and Mail
"Nearly flawless plotting, characterization, and writing."
— Joan Barfoot, London Free Press
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Ariel Warren was a popular lecturer among the students and staff, and her violent death shocks – and divides – Regina’s small and fractious academic community. Kevin Coyle, a professor earlier accused of sexual harassment, is convinced the murder is connected to his case, even as Ariel’s long-time lover, Charlie Dowhanuik, a radio talk-show host, seems to point the finger at himself in his on-air comments on the day of the murder.
Aghast at Charlie’s indiscretion, his father, Howard, asks his old friend Joanne for her help. But before Joanne has a chance to start searching for the truth, she is scorched by the white-hot anger of militant feminists on campus when a vigil for the dead woman turns ugly. Instead of a tribute to Ariel’s life, the vigil becomes an angry protest about violence against women. Some of the women there are certain they know who killed Ariel, and they are out for vengeance.
The everyday family problems and joys Joanne Kilbourn experiences as she solves baffling murder cases have endeared her to a growing number of fans, as have the television movies, starring Wendy Crewson as Joanne. The seventh novel in Gail Bowen’s much-loved series, Burying Ariel offers readers an imaginative, compassionate, and, above all, challenging mystery.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Burying Ariel,
By Maren Klein (Bassum, Niedersachsen Deutschland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Burying Ariel (Mass Market Paperback)
Before I enter into a review let me say I have been a Joanne Kilbourne lover since Gail Bowen's first mystery. I have distributed all her novels to all my friends and family. I have been looking forward to every single one of her novels - until Burying Ariel.This to me is a very tortured attempt at incorporating a personal view into fiction. I gather the topic is misguided expectations: expectations parents have of their children, lovers have of their paramours, individuals have of themselves. And how we fail and cannot let go or, if we do, the price we pay. This is certainly a valid topic and true. But in the novel it is so lifeless. So there is the old academic who cannot let go of his mysogenistic perceptions (only in the end) and that is exemplified by the fact he doesn't like email or using a computer; then there are the parents, high achievers, who do not want to recognize the artist in their daughter; the feminists, who are totally obnoxious and want to claim her as a victim of patriachy; there is the (almost ex-) partner, badly scarred himself; etc. But none of these characters are actually explored in detail. They are just what they are: People who do not understand. They all do things, but none of their actions have any grounding in the novel. They are simply scarred people (there are a few more) and none of their actions are related to anything. I was truly disappointed. Sure there is the usual family history; but there are also some memorable hitches when it comes to the series. Funny, Joanne Kilbourne, at nearly 50, would suddenly have a new gynaecologist, I guess for the sake of the novel. Gail Bowen writes wonderful novels, but in this one she just stretched credibility too far. If you want to complain about feminism or the imagined threat of "political correctness" on campus, there are other ways.
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