The Unlocking Season

Short Description

The nineteenth installment in the Joanne Kilbourn series. Jo is co-writing a screenplay for a made-in-Saskatchewan movie when a mysterious death puts the project in jeopardy.

Sales and Market Bullets

Deadly Appearances (1990) was nominated for the WH Smith/Books in Canada Best First Novel Award, and A Colder Kind of Death (1995) won the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel. Bowen was awarded the Grand Master Award of Crime Writers of Canada in 2018. The Winners’ Circle (2017) was nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award.
Gail Bowen has been the writer-in-residence for the Regina Public Library (2013–2014), Toronto Public Library (2009), and Calgary Memorial Park Library (2010). She has done extensive Canadian library tours for the previous books in the series.
The Joanne Kilbourn series will appeal to readers of Louise Penny’s Three Pines series.

Audience

Fans of the Joanne-Kilbourne Shreve murder mystery series
Avid mystery readers, especially of women sleuths
For readers of Louise Penny, Ruth Rendell, and Peter Robinson