Book Announcement: Lloydminster Reads

Lloydminster Reads
June 15, 2015
7:30 pm
Black Box Theatre, Lakeland College

Presented by
Arts Without Borders Festival

Doors Open: 7:00 pm
Book Discussion: 7:30 pm
Black Box Theatre

Meet the Author
Book Signing

Ticket Price: $25.00 - Refreshments Included
Tickets on Sale: Feb 12


Box Office: 780-872-7400 (Mon-Fri) 9:30 am - 3:30 pm

Book Release Date: March 3, 2015
Book can be pre-ordered from Chapters Indigo and Amazon

About the Book

From beloved author Gail Bowen comes the 15th installment in a national bestselling series, A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery.

Joanne'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.

The Shreve campaign perseveres, but when Zack's opponents share some shocking information about the past, the revelation sends Joanne reeling. As tensions around the election build, Joanne tries to hold herself together, keep her family intact, and get to the bottom of why a series of violent incidents, seemingly related to the mayoral race, all lead back to a mysterious property in North Central, 12 Rose Street.

Reviews

"A master of ramping up suspense." Ottawa Citizen

"Bowen has a hard eye for the way human ambition can take advantage of human gullibility." Publishers Weekly

"I love this series... Bowen does it all with panache." Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail

A gripping novel about family and friendship, competition and betrayal, 12 Rose Street confirms why Gail Bowen is indeed the "queen of Canadian crime fiction." Winnipeg Free Press

About the Author

GAIL BOWEN's first Joanne Kilbourn mystery, Deadly Appearances (1990), was nominated for the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada Best First Novel Award, and A Colder Kind of Death (1995) won the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel. In 2008 Reader's Digest named Bowen Canada's Best Mystery Novelist; in 2009 she received the Derrick Murdoch Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. Bowen has also written plays that have been produced across Canada and on CBC Radio. Now retired from teaching at the First Nations University, Bowen lives in Regina.