- Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart; 1 edition (Sep 7 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0771014856
- ISBN-13: 978-0771014857
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #500,706 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Add Gail Bowen to the growing, long list of Canadians turning out superior mystery stories…Ms. Bowen charms the reader with a compelling heroine, some intriguing side figures and a suitably murky mystery, and combines it all with fine writing and acceptable surprises along the way.”
–The Whig-Standard, Kingston
“In Joanne Kilbourn, Gail Bowen has created a narrator who is bright, thoughtful, wryly entertaining, and warm without being sappy…I found this a very hard book to put down.”
–Gary Draper, Books in Canada
–The Whig-Standard, Kingston
“In Joanne Kilbourn, Gail Bowen has created a narrator who is bright, thoughtful, wryly entertaining, and warm without being sappy…I found this a very hard book to put down.”
–Gary Draper, Books in Canada
Book Description
Andy Boychuk is a successful Saskatchewan politician – until one sweltering August afternoon when the party faithful gather at a picnic. All of the key people in Boychuk’s life – family, friends, enemies – are there. Boychuk steps up to the podium to make a speech, takes a sip of water, and drops dead. Joanne Kilbourn, in her début as Canada’s leading amateur sleuth, is soon on the case, delving into Boychuk’s history. What she finds are a Bible college that’s too good to be true, a woman with a horrifying and secret past, and a murderer who’s about to strike again.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
An otherwise great novel with one major flaw...,
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This review is from: Deadly Appearances (Paperback)
Before I begin, I should point out that I have read and loved the entire Jo Anne Kilbourn mystery series, and that this first book is the only one I have any solid troubles with.Jo Anne Kilbourn is a wonderful character, a woman who can't seem to not get involved when a man she worked with in Canadian Politics is murdered by poison in front of a crowd, herself included. Digging into the past of the politician, however, she unearths that all might not be how it seemed, and soon wonders how many people she can trust that she has trusted her entire adult life. A character with a solid family, Jo Anne is a bright and interesting widower, and a smart amateur sleuth to boot. On that basis alone, this was a pleasure to read. The pleasure ends with the villain. I don't want to give the book away, but who the villain is and and the villain's motive for murder set my teeth on edge. .... It's tiring, insulting, and done far too often in fiction. That said, the rest of the book propelled me forward in the Jo Anne Kilbourn series, and I have loved the rest dearly, right up to "Burying Ariel." Check it out, just get ready to flinch, in a bad way, at the villain.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Solving the mystery of a fictional Canadian politician.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Deadly Appearances (Paperback)
It was a fantastic read. I was guessing to the very end. Descriptions of the settings where the plot takes place are extremely realistic. Set in the Canadian prairies.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
An otherwise great novel with one major flaw...,
By Jonathan Burgoine "bookseller" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Deadly Appearances (Paperback)
Before I begin, I should point out that I have read and loved the entire Jo Anne Kilbourn mystery series, and that this first book is the only one I have any solid troubles with.Jo Anne Kilbourn is a wonderful character, a woman who can't seem to not get involved when a man she worked with in Canadian Politics is murdered by poison in front of a crowd, herself included. Digging into the past of the politician, however, she unearths that all might not be how it seemed, and soon wonders how many people she can trust that she has trusted her entire adult life. A character with a solid family, Jo Anne is a bright and interesting widower, and a smart amateur sleuth to boot. On that basis alone, this was a pleasure to read. The pleasure ends with the villain. I don't want to give the book away, but who the villain is and and the villain's motive for murder set my teeth on edge. .... It's tiring, insulting, and done far too often in fiction. That said, the rest of the book propelled me forward in the Jo Anne Kilbourn series, and I have loved the rest dearly, right up to "Burying Ariel." Check it out, just get ready to flinch, in a bad way, at the villain. 1 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Solving the mystery of a fictional Canadian politician.,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Deadly Appearances (Paperback)
It was a fantastic read. I was guessing to the very end. Descriptions of the settings where the plot takes place are extremely realistic. Set in the Canadian prairies.
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