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Murder at the Mendel
(1991)(Love and Murder)
(The second book in the Joanne Kilbourn series)
A novel by Gail Bowen
Publisher's Weekly
This U.S. debut by a Canadian writer is less a mystery than an elegant and painstaking examination of family ties and friendships, both battered beyond recognition by time and willful egos. Sally Love has achieved fame and notoriety in the art world with her works of ''erotobiography.'' But she has suffered losses along the way: she's in the process of selling her gallery; has lost touch with her childhood friend, Joanne Kilbourn; and is estranged from her husband, her mother and her daughter. A third of the novel is a tense, masterfully written character study; then the killings begin: the disturbed gallery manager is ritually murdered, and one of the many irate protesters outside the gallery where Sally's newest piece is on display is gunned down. The author subverts the usual notions of plot, shifting narrative gears frequently to dwell on a telling detail or an evocative aside. The effect, while a mite unsettling, is bold and powerful. Subsequent deaths result in too few suspects but by then the quixotic, volatile relationships connecting Sally to Joanne and to the rest of the world have firmly seized the reader's imagination .
Genre: Mystery
This U.S. debut by a Canadian writer is less a mystery than an elegant and painstaking examination of family ties and friendships, both battered beyond recognition by time and willful egos. Sally Love has achieved fame and notoriety in the art world with her works of ''erotobiography.'' But she has suffered losses along the way: she's in the process of selling her gallery; has lost touch with her childhood friend, Joanne Kilbourn; and is estranged from her husband, her mother and her daughter. A third of the novel is a tense, masterfully written character study; then the killings begin: the disturbed gallery manager is ritually murdered, and one of the many irate protesters outside the gallery where Sally's newest piece is on display is gunned down. The author subverts the usual notions of plot, shifting narrative gears frequently to dwell on a telling detail or an evocative aside. The effect, while a mite unsettling, is bold and powerful. Subsequent deaths result in too few suspects but by then the quixotic, volatile relationships connecting Sally to Joanne and to the rest of the world have firmly seized the reader's imagination .
Genre: Mystery
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Used availability for Gail Bowen's Murder at the Mendel
Hardback Editions
May 1993 : USA Hardback
September 1991 : Canada Hardback
Paperback Editions
May 2011 : Paperback

Title: [(Murder at the Mendel)] [By (author) Gail Bowen] published on (May, 2011)
Author(s): Gail Bowen
Publisher: MCCLELLAND & STEWART
Availability: Amazon UK
May 2011 : Canada Paperback
April 2000 : Canada Mass Market Paperback
June 1992 : Canada Mass Market Paperback
Audio Editions
November 2012 : USA Audio edition

Title: Murder at the Mendel: A Joanne Kilbourne Mystery, Book 2
Author(s): Gail Bowen
Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press Inc.
Availability: Amazon
November 2012 : Australia Audio edition

Title: Murder at the Mendel: A Joanne Kilbourne Mystery, Book 2
Author(s): Gail Bowen
Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press Inc.
Availability: Amazon AU
November 2012 : Canada Audio edition

Title: Murder at the Mendel: A Joanne Kilbourne Mystery, Book 2
Author(s): Gail Bowen
Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press Inc.
Availability: Amazon CA
November 2012 : UK Audio edition

Title: Murder at the Mendel: A Joanne Kilbourne Mystery, Book 2
Author(s): Gail Bowen
Publisher: Post Hypnotic Press Inc.
Availability: Amazon UK
2012 : Canada Audio CD
2012 : Canada Audio CD
Kindle Editions
May 2011 : USA, Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition