Andy Boychuk is a successful Saskatchewan politician -- until one sweltering August afternoon when the party faithful gather at a picnic. All of the key people in Boychuk's life -- family, friends, enemies -- are there. Boychuk steps up to the podium to make a speech, takes a sip of water, and drops
Gail Bowen - Joanne Kilbourn 07 - Burying Ariel
โ Scribed by Bowen, Gail
- Book ID
- 107839234
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 427 KB
- Series
- Joanne Kilbourn 7
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781551996158
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โฆ Synopsis
Joanne Kilbourn is looking forward to a relaxing weekend at the lake with her children and her new grandchild when murder once more wreaks havoc in Regina, Saskatchewan. A young colleague at the university where Joanne teaches is found stabbed to death in the basement of the library.
Ariel Warren was a popular lecturer among the students and staff, and her violent death shocks -- and divides -- Regina's small and fractious academic community. Kevin Coyle, a professor earlier accused of sexual harassment, is convinced the murder is connected to his case, even as Ariel's long-time lover, Charlie Dowhanuik, a radio talk-show host, seems to point the finger at himself in his on-air comments on the day of the murder.
Aghast at Charlie's indiscretion, his father, Howard, asks his old friend Joanne for her help. But before Joanne has a chance to start searching for the truth, she is scorched by the white-hot anger of militant feminists on campus when a vigil for the dead...
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