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

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
What's Past Is Prologue
The Legacy
Love You to Death
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
A Killing Spring
Verdict in Blood
Burying Ariel

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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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Recommended by Violet Lee

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

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Recommended by Kayla Price

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

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Recommended by Camila Taylor

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

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Charles Todd

Recommended by Leah Parker

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

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Recommended by Charlotte Williams

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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I love the V.I. Warshaski books by Sara Paretsky. Hard boiled female detective who is super tough. G

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Recommended Books From Gail Bowen Fans

Precious and Grace
King Solomon's Carpet
The Devil's Bed
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd
Red Bones
The Lost Get Back Boogie
Shadow Prey
Agatha Raisin and the Love from Hell
Blood on Snow
The Boy from the Woods
The Thief
Maisie Dobbs
Double Homicide
Kingdom of the Blind
Still Life with Crows
A Bird in the Hand
Beneath the Bleeding
Children of the Storm
Revenge of the Stormbringer
Hide and Seek
All the Colors of Darkness
Less Than a Treason
Hemlock at Vespers
The Black Widow
Bleeding Heart Yard
Stone Cold
The Last Good Day
Blonde Hair
The Dove of Death
Monday Mourning
The St. Zita Society
Mrs Pollifax and the Golden Triangle
Too Close for Comfort: The Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series
Believing the Lie
The Accidental Detective
The Man in Black and Other Stories
Garment of Shadows
A Cold Heart: An Alex Delaware Novel
The Wrong Side of Goodbye
Desperate Undertaking
Dark Sacred Night
No Mark Upon Her
Time Bomb
The Five Bells and Bladebone
The Other Side of the Door
How to Solve Your Own Murder
A Lesson in Secrets
Mad Hatter's Holiday
The Quiet Side of Passion
Kiss Her Goodbye
The Lying Room
The Hunting Party
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Treasure State
A Perfect Storm
The Most Dangerous Thing
Mercy Falls
An Incomplete Revenge
Death of an Eye
Agatha Raisin and The Wizard of Evesham
Fugitive Colors
I
Whiteout
J is for Judgment
A Trick of the Light
Hush Hush
Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled
The Last Detective
Skeleton Canyon
All the Devils Are Here
The Neon Rain
Mad Honey
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
Cooking the Books
The Breakdown
Girl in a Box
The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
The Pursuit
This Body of Death
Every Cloak Rolled in Blood
Bleeding Hearts
Talking to Strange Men
Murder in Paradise
Last Breath
Lord John and the Hand of Devils
Cadillac Jukebox
The Custom of the Army: An Outlander Novella
True Blue
Old Bones
Doors Open
The Escape
Faithful Place
Murder and Mendelssohn
Taking the Fifth
House of Correction
Desert Star
Cop to Corpse
A Cruel Fate
A Dying Fall
Kitchener's Gold
Buried Secrets
We Solve Murders
A Highland Christmas: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
Hardball: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
This Dark Road to Mercy
The Man Who Fell from the Sky
The Kidnapping: An Ian Rutledge Original Short Story
The Scottish Prisoner
A Traitor to Memory
Damage Control
The Nature of the Beast
The Collector
Final Edition
Search the Dark
Absolute Proof
The Disappeared
The Killing Stones
Death of a Dreamer
Freeze Frame
Full Blast
Barriers to Entry
Corridors of the Night: A William Monk Novel
The Understudy
Death Comes to Pemberley
The Deer Leap
The Third Wife
The Housemaid Is Watching
Assumption
Deadly Appearances
Girl Missing
So Sure of Death
The Fallen Curtain and Other Stories
Dead Land: A V.I. Warshawski Novel
Here One Moment
Tooth and Claw: A Longmire Story
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
Fear the Worst
A Forgotten Place
Dangerous Minds
A Lesson in Dying
With a Mind to Kill: A James Bond Novel
Diamond Solitaire
The Hit
Pieces of Her: A Novel
Triptych: A Will Trent Novel
Beautiful Ugly
The Painted Queen
Black Diamond
A Body in the Bathhouse
Beyond Reach: A Novel
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
Open Season
Long Shadows
Blood Ties
I Know a Secret: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel
Murder for Love
Master of Souls
The Girl Next Door
Ordinary Grace
Faking a Murderer: MatchUp Collection
Lethal Prey
The Case Has Altered: A Richard Jury Mystery
Smokin' Seventeen
The Simple Truth
Another Thing to Fall
Playing for the Ashes
The Department of Sensitive Crimes
The Woods
Folly
Wicked Appetite
Angels in the Gloom: A Novel
Twelfth Night
A Plague of Zombies: An Outlander Novella
Blue Shoes and Happiness
Through a Glass
Robicheaux
Slow Kill
Christmas at Patchin Place: Two Molly Murphy Mysteries
Slaves of Obsession: A William Monk Novel
The Grave's a Fine and Private Place
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The Purity of Vengeance
Some Lie and Some Die
Cop Town
I Found You
Mr. Mercedes
A Finer End
Butchers and Other Stories of Crime
Knave of Diamonds
The Jewels of Paradise
Echoes of Sherlock Holmes
To Darkness and to Death
Death of a Heretic
Southampton Row
The Coworker
Death with a Double Edge
The Fallen
K is for Killer
Killing Grounds
The Summer That Never Was
Blood in Eden
A Cry in the Night
Ashworth Hall
The Grownup
To Play the Fool
The Dirty Duck
Dead Like You
A Truth to Lie For
Bless the Bride
The Murder Stone: A Novel of Suspense
Heat Lightning
Missing and Endangered
Poseidon's Gold
Bethlehem Road
Rage
Seeds of Deception: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
From Potter's Field
The Tenant
Fleshmarket Close
A Hidden Secret: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
The Imposter: A Mike Bowditch Short Mystery
Not Safe After Dark: And Other Stories
The Pillars of the Earth
Deception: An Alex Delaware Novel
Fractured: A Will Trent Novel
The Way of All Fish
The Talented Mr. Varg
Dead to Rights
Catch Me
A Hero to Hold
The Body in the Castle Well
The Rose Arbor
The Handsome Man's de Luxe Café
The Old Wine Shades
Death of a Smuggler
Dry Bones: A Longmire Mystery
I'm Not Done with You Yet
Blue Monday
Red Mist
Wayfaring Stranger
Run Away
N is for Noose
Treachery at Lancaster Gate
Out of the Black Land
Beneath the Surface
The Brass Verdict
A Christmas Return: A Novel
The Joy and Light Bus Company
Smoke and Mirrors
The Big Gamble
Dead Souls
The Hippopotamus Pool
His & Hers
Dead Reckoning
The Night She Disappeared
Away in a Manger
Trickster's Point
Wicked Business
A Death in Cornwall
Death in the Vines
Choose Me
Creole Belle
A Grave Denied
Hard Eight
Time and Tide: A DC Smith Investigation
The Hidden One
Telling Tales
Playing with Fire
The Midnight Hour
Death of Riley
Breakdown: An Alex Delaware Novel
A Divided Loyalty
The Life We Bury
Remaindered
Bittersweet Oblivion
An Ensuing Evil and Others: Fourteen Historical Mysteries
Christmas in Absaroka County: Walt Longmire Christmas Stories
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The Pearl Diver
At the Scene of the Crime
Funeral in Blue: A William Monk Novel
Junior High Samurai: A Short Story
Fever Dream
An Inside Job
A Comedy of Terrors
Long Lost: A Kate Burkholder Short Story
A Twist of Fortune
Death in the Devil's Acre
Cocaine Blues
The Widows
The Grey Beginning
Showstopper
The Last Mile
The Mystery Guest: A Maid Novel
The Love Talker
Death of a Gentle Lady
Cleanskin
The Next Accident
The Noble Path
Beginnings: A Kate Martinelli Novella

“‘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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