Les livres de Bowen, Gail

Sleuth Joanne Kilbourn is dismayed to find out that her friend Jill is marrying filmmaker Evan MacLeish. While he is famous, he has also exploited the lives - and deaths - of the two wives he lost to suicide by making acclaimed films about them. And now, he is on the point of releasing his most potentially explosive film yet, one that features his 17-year-old daughter Bryn. Some strong language. 2003.

George and Adelaide, who meet only briefly during World War I, maintain a relationship through letters. Their love grows as dramatic changes and upheavals occur in the post-war period.

Andy Boychuk, a popular Prairies politician, dies moments before he is to make a speech. Joanne Kilbourn, his speechwriter, relives the anguish she felt years earlier when her husband was murdered. When Joanne decides to find Andy's killer, her own life is threatened.

Joanne Kilbourn, the Regina-based professor, single mother, and sleuth, is forced to relive the pain of her husband's untimely death when his murderer, Kevin Tarpley, is himself killed in prison. Soon after, she finds herself the prime suspect in the murder of Tarpley's wife. In order to prove her innocence, Kilbourn probes the past of the prisoner, her politician husband, and her friends.

Joanne Kilbourn becomes involved in the case of a prominent academic who is found dead in a rather compromising situation. After a student complains to Joanne that she's being sexually harassed, Joanne delves into an ugly on-campus world of deceit, fear, and murder.

A young woman hands her baby to a perfect stranger - the daughter of Delia Wainberg, a lawyer in the same firm as Joanne Kilbourn's husband - and disappears. One close look at the child suggests a family relationship, and soon the truth about the child Delia gave up for adoption years ago comes out. The boy must be Delia's grandson, but then his mother is found dead, sexually assaulted and murdered. Not only is there a killer on the loose, but the dead woman's partner is demanding custody of the child. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language.

Amateur sleuth Joanne Kilbourn is vacationing at a lawyer friend's cottage, in a group of homes all belonging to his law firm, when attorney Chris Altieri plunges his car off a dock and into the lake. Chris had earlier admitted to Joanne that he'd done something unforgivable; meanwhile, the vacationing lawyers close ranks about Chris and about a young female lawyer who had abruptly left the firm several months before and hasn't been seen since. When Joanne's cottage is broken into, she realizes that she must keep very quiet about her investigations.

Joanne's husband, Zack, recently elected mayor of Regina, is optimistic that he can garner the public support necessary to make Regina a city that works. Their oldest son Peter is marrying Maisie Crawford, a woman as clever and forthright as she is lovely. Their lakeside wedding is a dream come true, but when a former lover of a member of the bridal party shows up, the dream becomes a nightmare. Before the bride's bouquet has wilted, there's an act of sickening cruelty; soon afterwards, there's a murder.