Recommendations For Gail Bowen

Recommended by Ava Davis

I very much enjoy Gail Bowen, the Joanne Kilbourn series, set in Saskatchewan but not overly Canadia

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Recommended by GS Jemke

I’m a huge fan of the Joanne Kilbourn Shreve books. I’ve read every one, all 22. Joanne, her family

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Books By Gail Bowen

What's Past Is Prologue
The Legacy
Love You to Death
One Fine Day You're Gonna Die
The Shadow Killer
The Thirteenth Rose
Sleuth: Gail Bowen on Writing Mysteries
A Darkness of the Heart
The Unlocking Season
Image in the Lake
A Killing Spring
Verdict in Blood
Burying Ariel
The Glass Coffin
The Last Good Day
The Endless Knot
The Brutal Heart
The Nesting Dolls
Kaleidoscope
The Gifted
12 Rose Street
What's Left Behind
Deadly Appearances
The Winners' Circle
Murder at the Mendel
The Wandering Soul Murders
A Colder Kind of Death

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In Gail Bowen’s Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries, Joanne is a widowed mother, university professor, and amateur sleuth. The wonderfully clever and compassionate protagonist often finds herself solving crimes while balancing challenges in her personal life. The series also explores the social issues and family dynamics prevalent in contemporary Canadian society. What elements of the books do you enjoy the most? Do you find yourself wrapped up in solving the mysteries? Or do the personal and professional challenges Joanne faces engage you more?

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Virgil Flowers protagonist series by John Sandford are excellent. Well written and plot development

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I picked up the Sgt. Windflower Mysteries by Mike Martin thanks to a suggestion from someone in this

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Peter Grainger’s DC smith series is really good. He has other series too, but the DC Smith books are

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The Ian Rutledge series is outstanding! Charles Todd is actually and mother-son writing duo and I th

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I happened to buy a Peter Robinson book at an airport for the long flight home. I was hooked and hav

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Recommended Books From Gail Bowen Fans

The Best Man to Die
Hammer of Eden
Death of a Gossip
Sizzling Sixteen
Mad Hatter's Holiday
Three Hands in the Fountain
The Scarpetta Factor
Kaleidoscope
Messenger of Truth
Tooth and Nail
From Doon with Death
The Best American Mystery Stories 2018
One Good Turn
Fallen: A Novel
In the Dead of Night
The Quality of Mercy
Agatha Raisin and Tthe Haunted House
Fallen
A Sight for Sore Eyes
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Storm Front
Not the Ones Dead
The Wandering Soul Murders
Bruno and Le Pere Noel: A Bruno
Lost Birds: A Leaphorn
Heartstones
Tell No One
Goldengirl
Capital Crimes: A Novel
Hunting Badger
Elegy for Eddie
The Armor of Light
A Christmas Promise: A Novel
The Eagle Catcher
Shoot Don't Shoot
The Silent Spirit
The Marriage of Mary Russell
Toxic Prey
Saving Faith
Death of a Liar
The Hallmarked Man
A Measure of Darkness
Bloodstream
A New York Christmas: A Novel
Random Acts: A Joanna Brady and Ali Reynolds Novella
Raisins and Almonds
Alias Grace
Shattered Silk
Only the Lucky: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
Wish You Were Dead: Quick Reads
Before She Disappeared
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
Buried Road
Death of a Witch
The Housemaid's Secret
Stand Down
Death in Blue Folders
The Amersham Rubies
Hell's Corner
The Old Fox Deceiv'd
Kissed a Sad Goodbye
The Betrayal of Trust
Fair Warning
Old Haunts: A Simon Serrailler Short Story
Breaking Silence
Fortune and Glory
Behind Closed Doors
Children of the Revolution
The First Cut: A Novel of Suspense
Where They Last Saw Her
The Woman in Blue
Lightning Strike
The Weaker Sex
R is for Ricochet
The Pharaoh Key
Blow Fly
Some Lie and Some Die
First Frost: A Longmire Mystery
Triple Jeopardy
Jacket Man
The Conditions of Unconditional Love
Joyland
Death on Blackheath
Diamond Dust
Behold a Pale Horse
Aftermath: An Inspector Banks Novel
Death of an Outsider
N is for Noose
The Moth Catcher
A Fatal Lie
A Great Deliverance
Butchers Hill
Baltimore Blues
The Case Has Altered: A Richard Jury Mystery
Outlaw Mountain
Cain His Brother: A William Monk Novel
Incident at Badamaya: A Novel
Bethlehem Road
The Ice Limit
What to Do When Someone Dies
The Kate Shugak Investigations: Books 1-9
The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery
Homecoming: A Historical Mystery
Brunswick Gardens
Not Dead Yet
Winter's Child
Red Mist
Missing Pieces: A Kings Lake Investigation
A Suitable Vengeance
The Locked Room
Honor Bar
In Like Flynn
The Lair of the White Fox
Ruth's First Christmas Tree
Fear the Worst
Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station
Paradise Valley
The Marching Season
A Dangerous Place
Agatha Raisin: The Complete BBC Radio Drama Collection
Photo Finish
Flesh and Blood
Her Royal Spyness
The Lost Coast: A Novel
The Twelve Clues of Christmas
Gideon's Sword
Trial by Fury
The Tin Roof Blowdown
Invisible Girl
Suicide Run
The Soul of Discretion
The Lying Room
Baby Doll Games
Blockade Billy
Desperate Undertaking
The Blood of an Englishman
Queen of the Flowers
The English Assassin
A Death in Vienna
Deep South
The Third Wife
Mystery: An Alex Delaware Novel
The Shifting Tide: A William Monk Novel
Simisola
The Recovery Agent
The Spotted Dog
The Prisoner of Castillac
A Dedicated Man
The Minotaur: A Novel
A Death in the Small Hours
Death of a Stranger: A William Monk Novel
The Red Door
Unseen: A Novel
The Mysterious West
The Brutal Telling
The Whole Truth
The Brass Verdict
The Rise: A Short Story
Six Years
The Target
The Satapur Moonstone
The Shapeshifter's Lair
Die Again: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built
The Buzzard Table
The Ghost of Christmas Past
Sharp Force
Resurrection Men
A Grave Talent
Under the Color of Law
Apostle's Cove
The Face in the Mirror
Alone
Poison Lilies
Whisper to the Blood
Hints of Heliose
A Dangerous Mourning: A William Monk Novel
The Master of Blacktower
Beastly Things
Love
The 7th Month
Tigerlily's Orchids
Mad River
The Secret Hours
Sunburn
Venus in Copper
Blue Genes
Third Twin
There Will Be Bodies
The Château Murder
Wildcat: V. I. Warshawski's First Case
Keeper of the Bride
The Lake of Darkness
The Rose Arbor
Diamond and the Eye
The Obsidian Chamber
The Poet
Tell Me
The Lake House: A Novel
Killer Market
Upon a Dark Night
The Empress File
Wild Fire
Pirate King
Midnight Guardian
Brush Back
Playing with Fire
Clawback
The Other Woman
Murder Unfolds
Miracle Cure
A Better Man
Serpent's Tooth
Rebus' Scotland
A Cold Blooded Business
Deadly Stakes
The Distant Echo
The King's Ransom
Case Histories
Jackdaws
Bone Box: A Decker/Lazarus Novel
End Game
The Dark on the Other Side
Watchman: A Novel
Rattlesnake Crossing
Blue on Black
Nine Dragons
The Innocent
Trick of the Dark
The Winner
The Shape Shifter
Live to Tell
Butchers and Other Stories of Crime
The Tooth Tattoo
In the Company of Sherlock Holmes
A Stranger in Mayfair
1989: An Allie Burns Novel
Angle of Investigation
The Old Silent
The Escape
Magpie Murders
Lethal Prey
The Stargazey
Girl Missing
The Quiet Side of Passion
Through the Evil Days
The Keeper of Lost Causes
Walking Shadows
Lightning Strikes the Silence
The Long Way Home
The Man in Black and Other Stories
Queen of Hearts
Wild Crimes
Bootlegger's Daughter
The Unlikely Spy
The Camel Club
The Rags of Time: A DC Smith Investigation
Mrs. Pollifax
The Body
A Demon In My View
The Waters of Eternal Youth
Watchers of Time
Death in a Darkening Mist
Death of a Domestic Diva
The Punishment She Deserves
Never Say Die
One by One
Death by Water
Dark Assassin: A William Monk Novel
Agatha Raisin and The Witch of Wyckhadden
The Fallen Curtain and Other Stories
Lay Down the Law
The Ex
Alchemist
A Body in the Bathhouse
UR
The Great Deceiver
Dance of the Bones
Beau Death
Stargazer: A Leaphorn
A Christmas Return: A Novel
A Study in Sherlock
The Pursuit
The Sound of Broken Glass
Bloodlines: Long And Short Stories
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
No Night Is Too Long
The Shadow Murders
Thunder Bay
Shooting at Loons
Unnatural Exposure
The Granite Coast Murders: A Brittany Mystery
A Christmas Deliverance: A Novel
Long Lost
One for the Money
Death of a Greedy Woman
The Fourth Sacrifice
Strip Jack
Put on by Cunning
A Cold Heart: An Alex Delaware Novel

“‘Maybe life’s greatest gift is that we don’t know what’s ahead,’ he said. The stranger’s words were cold comfort but I held them close. They were all I had.”

Gail Bowen, The Winners’ Circle
Hanna Weber
“I really enjoy Gail Bowen’s Joanne Kilbourn mysteries. They’ve got great twists and turns that keep me guessing until the very end. And there’s always a lot to think about afterwards because of the way Bowen weaves in social issues and family relationships into the plots. I end up really caring about the characters and what happens to them.”

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