The Glass Coffin - Softcover

Bowen, Gail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0771014775 ISBN 13: 9780771014772

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 2003

Synopsis

In this chilling tale of the terrible power of the ties that both bind us and blind us, Gail Bowen has given us her best novel yet. Brimming with the author’s characteristic empathy for the troubled, The Glass Coffin explores the depth of tragedy that a camera’s neutral eye can capture – and cause.

Canada’s favourite sleuth, Joanne Kilbourn, is dismayed to learn who it is that her best friend, Jill Osiowy, is about to marry. Evan MacLeish may be a celebrated documentary filmmaker, but he’s a cold fish who not only has already lost two wives to suicide, but has exploited their lives – and deaths – by making acclaimed films about them. Not even Jill appears to be particularly fond of him, and Jo is appalled to learn that her friend is marrying Evan primarily to become stepmother to his teenaged daughter, Bryn. Even Bryn hates her father for having filmed her all of her short life. It’s obvious to Joanne that this is stony ground on which to found a marriage. What is not obvious is that it is about to get bloodsoaked.

Intelligent, sympathetic, and harder-edged than earlier novels in the Joanne Kilbourn series, The Glass Coffin is the work of a writer at the top of her form.
From the Hardcover edition.

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From the Back Cover

“Chilling and unexpected.”
– Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail

“Bowen fans will get their fill in this mixture of psychological thriller and Joanne Kilbourn-style kitchen-sink detecting.”
–Saskatoon Star-Phoenix

“An exciting addition to the series.”
–Halifax Chronicle-Herald
From the Hardcover edition.

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; all 14 (and counting!) books in the series have been enthusiastically reviewed. 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. www.gailbowen.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0771014775
• ISBN 13: 9780771014772
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352