An Image in the Lake
A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery
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Publisher Description
From Arthur Ellis Award–winning, Grand Master of Crime Writers, and “the queen of Canadian crime fiction” (Winnipeg Free Press) comes the newest installment in the Joanne Kilbourn series
A dark secret threatens the future of the Shreve family
It’s August 24 and Joanne Shreve and her husband, Zack, are savoring the last lazy days of summer and looking forward to the birth of a new grandchild; involvement in the campaign of Ali Janvier, a gifted politician with a solid chance of becoming the province’s next premier; and the debut of Sisters and Strangers, the six-part series Joanne co-wrote that focuses on her early life. The series is the flagship of a new slate of programming, and MediaNation is counting on a big return. Joanne and Zack’s stake in the series’s success is personal. Their daughter, Taylor, is in a relationship with one of the show’s stars, and Vale Frazier is already like family to them.
It seems the “season of mist and mellow fruitfulness” will be a bountiful one for the Shreves. But when a charismatic young woman wearing a grief amulet that contains a lock of her dead brother’s hair and a dark secret becomes part of their lives, the success of Sisters and Strangers and the future of Taylor and Vale’s relationship are jeopardized, and only Joanne and Zack can put an end to the threat.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Arthur Ellis Award winner Bowen's winning 20th Joanne Kilbourn mystery (after 2020's The Unlocking Season) finds the 62-year-old Saskatchewan political science professor and her family looking forward to the premier of Sisters and Strangers, a six-part TV series Joanne cowrote that tells the story of her traumatic teenage years. When two employees of Media Nation, the station producing Sisters and Strangers, are dismissed by the station and later disappear, Joanne, who has a reputation as a sleuth, investigates. Other crises develop. An acquaintance of Joanne's, a respected businessman, is charged with murder after his difficult wife, the former host of a morning TV show, turns up dead. A cohort of Media Nation interns, notably the nasty step-grandson of the station's CEO, harass a local politician. The discovery of the body of one of the missing employees raises the stakes as the various plot lines build toward the satisfying climax, a viewing of Sisters and Strangers. Amid the murder and mayhem, Bowen takes time to portray Joanne's rich life with her loving husband and their grown daughters. Readers will hope she'll be back soon.
