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 10 - The Endless Knot
โ Scribed by Bowen, Gail
- Book ID
- 107839512
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 440 KB
- Series
- Joanne Kilbourn 10
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781551992464
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โฆ Synopsis
The tenth novel in the highly acclaimed Joanne Kilbourn series features the murderous fallout of a tell-all book on the troubled adult children of Canadian celebrities.
When journalist Kathryn Morrissey's sensational book on the lives of thirteen adult children of prominent Canadians is published, one of the parents, Sam Parker, is furious enough to take a pot shot at the author, grazing her shoulder. Charges are laid, and Joanne's new beau, Zack Shreve, is hired by Parker as his defence counsel. At the trial, which Joanne is covering for NationTV, Shreve focuses the jury's attention not on who shot whom, but on why -- on the ethics governing the relationship between a journalist and her subject.
Morrissey's betrayal of her subjects opens up questions about an even more serious betrayal -- the betrayal of children by their parents. While everyone condemns Parker for taking a gun to Morrissey, no one can fault his defence of his only child, Glen, a transsexual....
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