Policier
When journalist Kathryn Morrissey's book about 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. Joanne Kilbourn is covering his trial for television while her boyfriend, lawyer Jack Shreve, is hired by Parker. On the day of the verdict, Morrissey is brutally murdered, and Joanne's investigation quickly has her trying to unravel the endless knot of the relationship between parent and child.
Joanne Kilbourn's husband Zack is the leading progressive candidate in a neck-and-neck race, with the existing mayor, for Regina's top job. The tough campaigning is well underway when a disturbing threat disrupts the celebration for the opening of the Racette-Hunter Centre - a project Zack has been spearheading, intended to benefit the impoverished community of North Central Regina. Joanne soon realizes that sinister interests are working behind the scenes of the election, and another savage act makes clear that someone will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo.
When university lecturer Ariel Warren turns up dead in the library, everyone becomes involved, from professors to janitors, campus DJs to local politicians, each with their own spin on who the murderer might be. The plot thickens when a group of feminists ties Ariel's murder to their cause. As teacher and detective, Joanne must solve the crime while managing the conflicting personalities and politics of university life. Some strong language.
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.
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.
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. It becomes increasingly unclear whether political agendas, shattered romance, or a secret buried deep in the past have motivated the crimes.
Joanne Kilbourn is following the political campaign of Ginny Monaghan, a woman whose success depends not so much on the election-day poll, but on the outcome of a custody battle she's fighting. Joanne thinks this is perfect material for a TV program she's putting together on women and politics, but then a local call girl is murdered - a woman whose regular clientele included several of Regina's most prominent lawyers, including (until he met Joanne) her own husband Zach. With her new marriage under strain, Joanne investigates why the dead woman had started to threaten her clients with blackmail. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex.
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.
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.
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. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex and violence.
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