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Kaleidoscope
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The thirteenth in Gail Bowen's beloved and award-winning Joanne Kilbourn mystery series promises to be the best of them all: some very bad things happen very, very close to home, and Joanne may never be quite the same again.
 
"Security for any one of us lies in greater abundance for all of us." For many years, this was the core of Joanne's political beliefs, but for a number of reasons, she has drifted away from it. But on the day Joanne retires from her university teaching post, she has a dream about her first husband (murdered many years ago), and this line comes back vividly in it.
 
Soon, she is forced to experience the truth of what, for most of her life, had just been a good closing line for a political speech. The night after Jo and Zack have dinner with Zack's colleague Margot and one of his law firm's biggest clients, the developer Leland Hunter, Jo and Zack's house is blown up. They're at the lake with daughter Taylor and their dogs, but the house is destroyed. And that is only the first of several terrible incidents. It isn't long before Joanne is witness to events far more distressing than even a destroyed home. She begins to understand what it's like to live in a world where she can count on nothing.
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      • bioText: GAIL BOWEN's first Joanne Kilbourn mystery, Deadly Appearances (1990), was nominated for the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada Best First Novel Award. Following that, A Colder Kind of Death (1995) won the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel; 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.
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"Security for any one of us lies in greater abundance for all of us." For many years, this was the core of Joanne's political beliefs, but for a number of reasons, she has drifted away from it. But on the day Joanne retires from her university teaching post, she has a dream about her first husband (murdered many years ago), and this line comes back vividly in it.
 
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      • source: Margaret Cannon, The Globe & Mail
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        National Bestseller

        "I love this series... This book brings [Joanne Kilbourn] back to her conscience and her past, and Bowen does it all with panache."

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      • source: Jack Batten, Toronto Star
      • content: "Bowen writes beautifully in catching the tone and the minutiae of [Joanne's] almost flawless familial existence. . . . Keeps readers turning the pages."
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      • source: Hamilton Spectator
      • content: "[Gail Bowen is] one of the finest [writers] in Canada. Kaleidoscope is the 13th Joanne Kilbourn mystery. It's as fresh and compelling as the first one."
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      • content: "[Bowen asks questions in Kaleidoscope] that really hold the series together, and invite us to fill in past gaps and look forward to future books."
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      • source: Devin Pacholik, Global News Regina/Patches and Pages blog

      • content: "Bowen is a charming, social-minded writer. I admire her ability to narrate Saskatchewan – it's beauties and barbarities. As many times as I got excited because I recognized some place from the city I was born in, I was just as ashamed for the us-versus-them tendencies Bowen relates: rich versus poor, white versus aboriginal, family versus business. And yet, the characters Bowen imagines have depth, good intentions that pave the potholed city of Regina. Sure, for marketing sake, Kaleidoscope is a mystery – a good one too. But more so, Bowen is a pundit and socially conscious artist. The commentary and dynamic plot within this novel hold with perfect geometry and colourful ideas viewed through Bowen's lens."
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        February 27, 2012
        Complicated family difficulties overshadow the crime solving in Bowen’s 13th mystery starring retired academic Joanne Kilbourn (after 2010’s The Nesting Dolls). A controversial building project, known as the Village, has ratcheted up the tensions in Regina, Saskatchewan. The developer, Leland Hunter, whose attorney is Kilbourn’s husband, believes he’s just clearing out a slum to create a model neighborhood that would rejuvenate downtown Regina. Since the death of the development’s project manager, Danny Racette, in a demolition accident, rumors have circulated that it was no accident that the explosives went off while he was still inside an old factory. Word on the street is that Red Rage, a radical group opposed to Hunter’s plan, murdered Racette to stop the Village. Meanwhile, Kilbourn’s connection to Hunter puts her family in jeopardy. The slow pace and less than satisfying ending make this one of the weaker installments.

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        April 1, 2012
        A pitched battle over the redevelopment of a troubled area of town reminds Joanne Kilbourn that her beloved Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, Canada, is prone to all the troubles of modern cities, including murder. Wealthy Leland Hunter, a client of Joanne's husband Zack Shreve, is bent on transforming the North Central sector of the city by means of The Village Project. Agitator Riel Delorme, who was a student of Joanne's before he dropped out of university and she retired, is so determined to stop him that he's enlisted the help of two local gangs, The Warriors and The Brigade. Members of both gangs who think Riel's Che Guevara tactics aren't effective enough have formed a splinter group, Red Rage, that aims to take a harder (read: more violent) line in opposing The Village Project. It's a mixture bound to have combustible results, and fire soon strikes Joanne and Zack's garage, blown to bits on a night they fortunately happen not to be home. As conflicts rage over the development, Joanne keeps discovering new wrinkles. Her daughter Mieka, a caterer who developed UpSlideDown, a playground that was an earlier casualty of the urban war, is in love with Riel Delorme. Leland's already complicated life--in addition to battling the gangs, he's about to wed his pregnant lover, barrister Margot Wright--is further troubled by repeated sightings of his unhinged ex-wife Louise, whose friend Sage Mackenzie, a cop-turned-lawyer, can barely keep her out of jail on stalking charges or worse. And Zack is preoccupied with the murder defense of Cronus, an antipathetic slumlord who insists on testifying that he didn't murder his girlfriend, police officer Arden Raeburn, after their weekly round of rough sex. As usual in Joanne's world (Burying Ariel, 2000, etc.), the vicissitudes of the plot are less memorable than the celebrations of ongoing life: two weddings, a child birth, several parties and a great deal of civilized but enthusiastic connubial sex.

        COPYRIGHT(2012) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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"Security for any one of us lies in greater abundance for all of us." For many years, this was the core of Joanne's political beliefs, but for a number of reasons, she has drifted away from it. But on the day Joanne retires from her university teaching post, she has a dream about her first husband (murdered many years ago), and this line comes back vividly in it.
 
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