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.
Jo and Zack are both proud and a little concerned when their youngest daughter Taylor has two paintings chosen for a high-level fund-raising auction. One they've seen; the other, Taylor has carefully guarded in her studio. When the hidden painting is finally revealed it sparks a new kind of relationship between Taylor and her model, and becomes the centre of a series of troubling incidents. Includes sex and violence.
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.
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 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.
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'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.
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.
Du Pré, sang-mêlé descendant de Canadiens français et d'Amérindiens, vit dans le Montana. Deux partisans présumés de l'expulsion du bétail des propriétaires privés sur les terres publiques au profit de la création d'un parc naturel sont soupçonnés d'avoir relâché des bêtes et en avoir tué d'autres. Ils sont retrouvés morts dans la voiture au pied d'une falaise, le shérif, ami de Du Pré enquête...
Du Pré est un sang-mêlé descendant de Canadiens français et d'Amérindiens, il vit dans le Montana. Alors qu'il participait à un festival de musique traditionnelle organisé à Washington par le Smithsonian, une jeune femme Cree du Canada, membre d'un groupe de chanteurs est tuée. Paul Chase le patron du festival propose à Du Pré de monter une expédition pour suivre une ancienne route de trappeurs...
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