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Gail Bowen explores trust, betrayal, and the seedy, success-at-all-costs underbelly of the movie business in
The Glass Coffin, the eighth and most gothic title of Bowen's Arthur Ellis Award-winning Joanne Kilbourn mystery series (
A Colder Kind of Death,
Burying Ariel). Bowen excels at exploring diverse milieus ranging far beyond the academic world inhabited by her university-professor sleuth. This time, a self-centred cast of characters arrives in Regina for the Christmas wedding of Jill Osiowy, a good friend of Kilbourn's whose star is rising in the world of television.
Kilbourn's initial delight at her friend's impending nuptials quickly sours when she learns that the filmmaker bridegroom has been widowed twice when the wives he hounded with his camera committed suicide. Even Jill has her qualms but, she assures Kilbourn, at 45 she can't wait much longer to have children--and Evan MacLeish comes complete with a wonderful daughter. Yet when bodies start dropping, it becomes clear that joining the bridegroom's family may indeed be a lethal prospect. Kilbourn's ex-lover--policeman Alex Kequahtooway--and married daughter Mieke are consigned to the narrative sidelines, allowing Bowen to keep the plot moving while plumbing the depths of the dysfunctional wedding party. --Deirdre Hanna
--Ce texte provient de la
Hardcover
édition.
Review
“Chilling and unexpected.”
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Margaret Cannon,
Globe and Mail
“Bowen fans will get their fill in this mixture of psychological thriller and Joanne Kilbourn-style kitchen-sink detecting.”
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Saskatoon Star-Phoenix
“An exciting addition to the series.”
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Halifax Chronicle-HeraldFrom the Hardcover edition.