Deadly Appearances [Paperback]

The first book in the Joanne Kilbourn series

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.Shortlisted for the Books in Canada / W.H. Smith First Novel Award

A terse, twist-a-minute mystery.
—Vancouver Sun

Gail Bowen is one of Canada's literary treasures.
—Ottawa Citizen

“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 CanadaGAIL BOWEN was an author, playwright, and educator best known for the acclaimed Joanne Kilbourn mystery series, spanning more than three decades and including twenty-four novels. The first Joanne Kilbourn mystery, Deadly Appearances l)