Description: 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.Review Quotes: 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 Canada