Gail Bowen

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1990
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

1 - Deadly Appearances (1990)
2 - Love and Murder // Murder at the Mendel (Sep-1991)
3 - The Wandering Soul Murders (Dec-1993)
4 - A Colder Kind of Death (Jun-1995)
5 - A Killing Spring (May-1997)
6 - Verdict in Blood (Sep-1998)
7 - Burying Ariel (Sep-2001)
8 - The Glass Coffin (Oct-2003)
9 - The Last Good Day (Sep-2004)
10 - The Endless Knot (Sep-2006)
11 - The Brutal Heart (Aug-2008)
12 - The Nesting Dolls (Aug-2010)
13 - Kaleidoscope (Apr-2012)
14 - The Gifted (Aug-2013)
15 - 12 Rose Street (Mar-2015)
16 - What's Left Behind (Mar-2016)
17 - The Winners' Circle (Aug-2017)
18 - A Darkness of the Heart (Aug-2018)
19 - The Unlocking Season (Sep-2020)
20 - An Image in the Lake (Sep-2021)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • Deadly Appearances

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    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 1

    Andy Boychuk is a successful Saskatchewan politician â€" until one sweltering August afternoon when the party faithful gather at a picnic. All of the key people in Boychuk’s life â€" family, friends, enemies â€" are there. Boychuk steps up to the p...

  • Love and Murder // Murder at the Mendel

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 2

    Sally Love's exhibition at the Mendel Gallery includes a mural depicting the private parts of her past lovers, and when protestors appear in droves, two dead bodies are found, and Sally's childhood friend, Joanne Kilbourn, must investigate the crimes...

  • The Wandering Soul Murders

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 3

    Murder is the last thing on Joanne Kilbourn’s mind on a perfect morning in May. Then the phone rings, and she learns that her daughter Mieka has found the corpse of a young woman in an alley near her store. So begins Joanne’s chilling collision w...

  • A Colder Kind of Death

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 4

    When a prisoner is shot to death in a Saskatchewan penitentiary, Joanne Kilbourn finds herself haunted by a part of her past she wished had never happened. The dead prisoner is Kevin Tarpley, the man who six years earlier had brutally killed her p...

  • A Killing Spring

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 5

    Gail Bowen, winner of the 1995 Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel for her last Joanne Kilbourn mystery, A Colder Kind of Death, is back â€" with her most daring mystery to date.In the horrifying opening paragraph of A Killing Spring, Reed Gallag...

  • Verdict in Blood

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 6

    Verdict in Blood is Gail Bowen’s sixth novel featuring Joanne Kilbourn, one of Canada’s most beloved sleuths. Teacher, friend, lover, single mother, and now grandmother, Joanne has a quick intelligence and a boundless compassion, which repeatedly...

  • Burying Ariel

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 7

    Joanne Kilbourn is looking forward to a relaxing weekend at the lake with her children and her new grandchild when murder once more wreaks havoc in Regina, Saskatchewan. A young colleague at the university where Joanne teaches is found stabbed to dea...

  • The Glass Coffin

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 8

    In this chilling tale of the terrible power of the ties that both bind us and blind us, Gail Bowen has given us her best novel yet. Brimming with the author’s characteristic empathy for the troubled, The Glass Coffin explores the depth of tragedy t...

  • The Last Good Day

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 9

    The ninth novel of Gail Bowen’s popular series finds Canada’s favourite amateur sleuth, Joanne Kilbourn, on holiday at a cottage borrowed from a lawyer friend, one of a cluster of summer homes owned by lawyers from the same prestigious firm. When...



  • Joanne Kilbourn

    Award-winning mystery writer Gail Bowen’s first three masterful mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Joanne Kilbourn are now collected in a single volume. In Deadly Appearances, a successful politician sips his water before a speech at a picnic on a ...

  • The Endless Knot

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 10

    When journalist Kathryn Morrissey's sensational book on the lives of thirteen adult children of prominent Canadians is published, one of the parents, Sam Parker, is furious enough to take a pot shot at the author, grazing her shoulder. Charges are la...

  • The Brutal Heart

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 11

    The bestselling Gail Bowen returns with a gripping story of marriage, politics, sex, and murder.With a general election just weeks away, Joanne Kilbourn is following the campaign of Ginny Monaghan, a woman who has her eyes set on the leadership of th...

  • Love You to Death

    Charlie D is the host of a successful late-night radio call-in show. His listeners have a particularly intimate relationship with him and often reveal much about themselves, confident that he will honor their trust and that he can save them. In their...

  • The Nesting Dolls

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 12

    Just hours before her body is found in a car in a parking lot, a young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger and disappears. The stranger is the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband. One close look a...

  • One Fine Day You're Gonna Die

    Charlie D is back doing his late-night radio call-in show. It's Halloween -- The Day of the Dead. Not a day filled with good memories for Charlie, but the show must go on. His studio guest this evening is Dr. Robin Harris, an arrogant and ambitious "...

  • The Further Investigations of Joanne Kilbourn

    This second Gail Bowen omnibus contains her next three masterful mysteries featuring Canada’s favourite amateur sleuth, Joanne Kilbourn. In A Colder Kind of Death, a prisoner is shot to death in the exercise yard of a Saskatchewan penitentiary, and...

  • Murder at the Mendel

    As a child Joanne was friends with Sally Love and her parents, but the friendship languished after Sally’s father died and she moved away, eventually becoming a very controversial artist. When the Mendel Gallery opens an exhibition of Sally’s wor...

  • The Shadow Killer

    It's Father's Day weekend--a tough time for Charlie D, host of a late-night radio call-in show that offers supportive advice to troubled listeners. For years Charlie has been alienated from his father--a retired politician who was always too busy for...

  • Kaleidoscope

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 13

    "Security for any one of us lies in greater abundance for all of us." For many years, this was the core of Joanne's political beliefs, but for a number of reasons, she has drifted away from it. But on the day Joanne retires from her university teachi...



  • The Thirteenth Rose

    For his Valentine's night call-in show, host Charlie D plans to offer his listeners two hours on the topic of "satisfaction." His in-studio guest is twenty-five-year-old Misty de Vol Burgh, formerly the highest-paid escort in the city but now happily...

  • The Gifted

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 14

    Joanne Kilbourn is as feisty as ever in the 14th book of the series that bears her name. This time, Jo and Zack's young daughter Taylor's precocious talent as a painter has drawn the attention of people who may not be at all what they seem . . . ...

  • 12 Rose Street

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 15

    The indomitable Joanne Kilbourn is back! From beloved author Gail Bowen comes the 15th installment in the nationally bestselling series. For readers of Louise Penny, Ruth Rendell, and Peter Robinson.      Joanne's husband Zac...

  • What's Left Behind

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 16

    From the "Queen of Canadian crime fiction" (Winnipeg Free Press) comes the 16th instalment of the much-loved Joanne Kilbourn series.The latest novel in the Joanne Kilbourn Shreve series opens in the month of May, a time of beginnings when all things ...

  • The Winners' Circle

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 17

    Book 17 of the nationally bestselling Joanne Kilbourn series is classic Gail Bowen: masterfully compelling storytelling that combines a modern, urban family with a gripping, satisfying mystery.As Joanne Kilbourn-Shreve, her husband, Zack, and their s...

  • A Darkness of the Heart

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 18

    The 18th installment of the bestselling Joanne Kilbourn series from the "queen of Canadian crime fiction" (Winnipeg Free Press).When, at the age of sixty, Joanne learns that Douglas Ellard, the reserved general practitioner whom she had grown up beli...

  • The Unlocking Season

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 19

    Arthur Ellis Award-winning author Grand Master Award of Crime Writers of Canada (2018) The “queen of Canadian crime fiction” (Winnipeg Free Press) returns with a new installment in the Joanne Kilbourn series that is perfect for readers of Louis...

  • An Image in the Lake

    A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery - 20

    From Arthur Ellis Awardâ€"winning, Grand Master of Crime Writers, and “the queen of Canadian crime fiction” (Winnipeg Free Press) comes the newest installment in the Joanne Kilbourn series A dark secret threatens the future of the Shreve family I...

  • What's Past Is Prologue

    From Arthur Ellis Awardâ€"winning Grand Master of Crime Writers comes the newest installment in the Joanne Kilbourn series When Libby Hogarth, the go-to lawyer for the rich or famous who have committed heinous crimes, comes to Regina to deliver the p...

  • The Legacy

    From the Arthur Ellis Awardâ€"winning Grand Master of Crime Writers comes the next installment in the Joanne Kilbourn series When Joanne Shreve’s former student, Val Masluk, writes the biography of acclaimed novelist, Steven Brooks, Val once again ...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gail Bowen has published 29 books.

Gail Bowen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Legacy, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Gail Bowen, Deadly Appearances, was published in January 1990.

Yes. Gail Bowen has 1 series.
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