GAIL BOWEN's Joanne Kilbourn mysteries have made her one of Canada's most popular crime-fiction writers. The first book in the series, Deadly Appearances, was nominated for the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada Best First Novel Award. It was followed by Murder at the Mendel, The Wandering Soul Murders, A Colder Kind of Death (which won the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel), A Killing Spring, Verdict in Blood, Burying Ariel, The Glass Coffin, The Last Good Day, and The Endless Knot. Bowen has also written five plays that have been produced across Canada, and one, The World According to Charlie D, for CBC Radio. Now retired from teaching at the First Nations University, Bowen lives in Regina.
