- Mass Market Paperback: 280 pages
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (April 8 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0771014910
- ISBN-13: 978-0771014918
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #316,090 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||
Product Details |
Product Description
From Amazon
Deadly Appearance, Gail Bowen's fourth mystery featuring amateur detective Joanne Kilbourn, takes the popular sleuth on an emotional roller- coaster ride into her the darkest moments of her past. When her husband Ian's murderer, Kevin Tarpley, is shot to death in the exercise yard at the penitentiary, it dredges up all of Joanne's worst nightmares. Joanne thought that Ian's brutal death was behind her, but now she's not so sure. Especially when Tarpley's wife is found murdered just days after the killer's death-- strangled by a scarf that belonged to Joanne--and Joanne is the number one suspect. Determined to clear her name, Joanne delves into Ian's political past and discovers secrets she doesn't want to uncover, including the possibility that Ian was cheating on her. Bowen has created a tantalizing, fast-paced mystery that's sure to engage fans of her Joanne Kilburn mysteries and new readers alike. Readers who enjoy Deadly Appearances might want to check out other Kilbourn sleuthings, including Burying Ariel, A Killing Spring, and Murder at the Mendel. --Jeffrey Canton
Review
“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
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Browse and search another edition of this book.
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most helpful customer reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Deadly Appearance,
By
This review is from: Deadly Appearances (Paperback)
As always Gail lives up to my expectations. She is a witty and entertaining writer. I shall continue to look for her books.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Smart,
By
This review is from: Deadly Appearances (Mass Market Paperback)
Joanne Kilbourn is a political science professor and widow of a Canadian politician. After the brutal murder of her husband, she struggles to rebuild her life and raise her three children. Part of her healing process includes working on the campaign of her good friend Andy Boychuck, a rising political star. When he is poisoned at a political rally she decides to write a biography about his life and, of course the secrets she uncovers lead her straight to the murderer. Gail Bowen is one of the premier mystery novelists in Canada and her books have a satisfying blend of character development, description of Canadian life and a puzzle. Several of her books have been made into TV movies in Canada.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Deadly Appearances,
By Maren Klein (Bassum, Niedersachsen Deutschland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Deadly Appearances (Mass Market Paperback)
Bowen's book opens with her protagonist's, Joanne Kilbourne's, second tragic and seemingly senseless loss, this time of her close friend, up-and-coming Regina politician Andy Boychuck. Not long before Joanne lost her husband in an apparently unmotivated violent crime and, therefore, Andy Boychuck's murder by poison hits her hard. To make sense of his death she, as a former political speech writer, decides to write his biography. So she dives into Andy Boychuck's life and uncovers an interesting array of secrets in the lives of their mutual friends, associates and acquaintances.In the course of her investigations she meets a close friend of Andy's whom she feels an affinity to and whom her children also like. She starts feeling that life might be good after all and that there is a chance for happiness for herself. But then she gets sick. Repeated visits to doctors cannot determine any physical reasons for her illness and she starts wondering whether she might be going mad. This is as much as I am going to reveal. Gail Bowen's debut novel is one of the best crime novels ever. It features believable, three-dimensional characters the reader learns to care about. Joanne Kilbourne is the mother-next-door and then she is something rather different because she is capable of seeing a thing she believes in through, no matter what (not that most of us are not). Unlike a hero in a movie, she has her self-doubts and bad moments; when a doctor tells her there is nothing wrong with her physically she assumes - like we all would - it's in her head. But she keeps on doing what she feels necessary. Most of all she is a real person. She has a family and is ensconced in a social network - and Bowen lets us into Joanne's thought processes. The end is logical - and totally unexpected. I borrowed Deadly Appearances from my local suburban Australian library in early 1999; since then I have bought all her novels to date and I keep scanning magazines for new ones. My mother-in-law borrowed Deadly Appearances in May 2000; since then she has just requested the next one every single time she's finished one. And if they have been translated into German, they'll make a fantastic present for my mother, my sisters and all of my friends. And next time I go and visit my sister in Toronto I'll make sure to have a stop-over in Regina to tour Bowen-Country.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Want to see more reviews on this item?
|
|
Listmania!
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
