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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

The Shadow Killer
The Thirteenth Rose
Sleuth: Gail Bowen on Writing Mysteries
A Darkness of the Heart
The Unlocking Season
Image in the Lake
What's Past Is Prologue
The Legacy
Love You to Death
One Fine Day You're Gonna Die
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
A Killing Spring
Verdict in Blood
Burying Ariel
The Glass Coffin

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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 Last Ballad
Stately Holmes
Devil's Food
The Judas Judge
Everyone Dies
The Brimstone Wedding
Blood Hollow
A Christmas Legacy: A Novel
Hunger
Seven Corpses All in a Row
The Bat
To the Land of Long Lost Friends
The Sinner: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
The Tenant
The Closers
Agatha Raisin and The Terrible Tourist
Fireball
Hemlock at Vespers
The Front
The Quiet Side of Passion
The Burnt House
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me
Lane: A Case For Willows And Lane
One Fine Day You're Gonna Die
The Talented Mr. Varg
In This Bright Future: A DC Smith Investigation
Mrs. Pollifax
The Web: An Alex Delaware Novel
The Deep Dark Descending
Coyote Hills: A Novel
Deadlock: A V. I. Warshawski Novel
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
Nasty Girls
The Wrong Side of Goodbye
Watching the Dark: An Inspector Banks Novel
A Conspiracy of Bones
Fallout: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Full Wolf Moon
Report for Murder
Bloody Genius
Death Row
Pros and Cons: A Short Story
The Naming of the Dead
The Wheel of Darkness
High Five
The Last Precinct
Junior High Samurai: A Short Story
The Shadows We Hide
Talking God
O is for Outlaw
Vanish: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Hornet Flight
The Dream Stalker
Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories
Valley of the Shadow
Sunstroke: A Thriller
Meet and Greet
A Column of Fire
Trace Elements
Long Road to Mercy
Twisted Prey
Lean Mean Thirteen
Prince of Fire
The Simple Truth
Above the Bay of Angels
Death of a Spy
The Detective Wore Silk Drawers
Blind Justice: A William Monk Novel
The Copper Peacock
The Dark on the Other Side
Nobody's Fool
Game On
The Scarred Woman
Ashworth Hall
Switchblade
Daylight
A Dangerous Fortune
Trickster's Point
Leaving Time
Daughters of Rome
Lethal Prey
Murder on the Ile Sordou
Lone Wolf
The Spirit Woman
Killjoy
The Tooth Tattoo
The Singing Sands
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
Need You Dead
Pirate King
Billy Summers
Doors Open
Murder on a Midsummer Night
The Other Woman
The Art of Detection
An Inside Job
Kissing Christmas Goodbye
The Crossing Places
The Sweet Remnants of Summer
Christmas in Newfoundland Memories and Mysteries: A Sgt. Windflower Book
Girl Gone Missing
A Heart Full of Headstones
The English Spy
Fortune and Glory
A Beautiful Blue Death
Liar's Bench
It Begins in Betrayal
When Will There Be Good News
A Silent Death
Stagestruck
Ocean Prey
Private Eyes
The Mary Russell Series: Books 2-4
The Crash
A Murderous Relation
Murder in Paradise
The Summons
Rock with Wings
Snowblind
The Third Nero
Nothing More Dangerous
Dead Man's Chest
Locked Rooms
What the Dead Know
Killing Time: An Agatha Raisin Mystery
An Impartial Witness
Resistance
In the Bleak Midwinter
Divine Justice
The Man Who Fell from the Sky
The Kate Shugak Investigations: Books 1-9
I'm Not Done with You Yet
The Templars' Last Secret
Whiteout
The Cruelest Month
Listen to Me
Justice Hall
Daisy Darker
Her Royal Spyness
The Seagull
Cooking the Books
Dry Bones: A Longmire Mystery
Life Support
Death of a Prankster
Dakota
The Breakdown
You Are Dead
Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas
Improbable Cause
The Dark Horse: A Longmire Mystery
Badlands: A Nora Kelly Thriller
So Sure of Death
The Old Silent
To Dwell in Darkness
A Question of Identity
Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
Girl
Simisola
The Night Fire
The Children Return
Angels Flight
A Sight for Sore Eyes
Outsider
One Perfect Couple
The Mill on the Shore
Downriver
Close to Death
Blood Will Tell
Nine Dragons
The Leper's Bell
Deadly Decisions
Exit Wounds
The Other Side of the Door
Hard Eight
Barriers to Entry
The Housemaid
When the Bough Breaks
Wolf to the Slaughter
Deadline
The Red Room
High Country
A Royal Pain
The Haunted Abbot
Beyond Reach: A Novel
Black Notice
No Rest for the Dead
The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Silent Voices
Sunday Silence
Judgment Call
Bethlehem Road
Badlands
Stargazer: A Leaphorn
Wild Crimes
House of Spies
Three-Day Town
Toxic Prey
Night Prey
Fatal Remedies
Cain His Brother: A William Monk Novel
The Serpent and the Pearl
Open Season
Killing Season: A Thriller
I'll Keep You Safe
Angle of Investigation
The Deer Leap
Seven Years
The Man in Black and Other Stories
Prince of Darkness
Cocaine Blues
The Bones of Paris
Dial A for Aunties
In a Gilded Cage
The Cabinet of Curiosities
The Chase
A Whisper in the Dark
A Distant View of Everything
Blood Ties
The Anodyne Necklace
The Crossing
The Man Who Died Twice
From Potter's Field
Mary's Christmas
The Scroll
A Killer in King's Cove
World Without End
A Fatal Lie
The Sheen on the Silk
A Dangerous Collaboration
The Night She Disappeared
The Nesting Dolls
Pitch Dark
A Burial at Sea
The Girls on the Shore: A Detective Matthew Venn Short Story
Acqua Alta
Endangered
One Virgin Too Many
The Last Camel Died at Noon
One by One
The Shapeshifter's Lair
The Black Echo
The Last Passenger
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Standing in Another Man's Grave
Choose Me
The Turn of the Key
A Comedy of Terrors
The Traitor Among Us
Transient Desires
Killing the Shadows
Deliver Us from Evil
Deadly Election
Queen of the Night
Murder Being Once Done
Hardly Knew Her: Short Stories
Death of a Travelling Man
Summer Rain: An Inspector Banks Short Story
A Deeper Sleep
Vanish with the Rose
The Night House
Under the Color of Law
Bruno and Le Pere Noel: A Bruno
Battle Mountain
The Sisters of Glass Ferry
Funeral in Blue: A William Monk Novel
The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday
Watchman: A Novel
Full Blast
The Snake
Blind Descent
Paradise Lost
Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
Manitou Canyon
Death of a Laird: A Hamish Macbeth Short Story
The Black Ice
Point of Origin
Spider Woman's Daughter
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
Jackdaws
To Play the Fool
A Christmas Beginning
The Love Talker
Jacket Man
The Fleur de Sel Murders: A Brittany Mystery
Tombland
Dust
John Doe: A Rizzoli & Isles Short Story
The Unlocking Season
The Deeds of the Disturber
One Last Lie
The Messenger
Last to Die
Saving Emma
His & Hers
Winter in Madrid: A Novel
The Sugar House
The Secret Encounter
Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation
Blood Money
Wings of Fire

“‘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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