Product Description

Joanne Kilbourn is looking forward to a relaxing weekend at the lake with her children and her new grandchild when murder once more wreaks havoc in Regina, Saskatchewan. A young colleague at the university where Joanne teaches is found stabbed to death in the basement of the library.

Ariel Warren was a popular lecturer among the students and staff, and her violent death shocks – and divides – Regina’s small and fractious academic community. Kevin Coyle, a professor earlier accused of sexual harassment, is convinced the murder is connected to his case, even as Ariel’s long-time lover, Charlie Dowhanuik, a radio talk-show host, seems to point the finger at himself in his on-air comments on the day of the murder.

Aghast at Charlie’s indiscretion, his father, Howard, asks his old friend Joanne for her help. But before Joanne has a chance to start searching for the truth, she is scorched by the white-hot anger of militant feminists on campus when a vigil for the dead woman turns ugly. Instead of a tribute to Ariel’s life, the vigil becomes an angry protest about violence against women. Some of the women there are certain they know who killed Ariel, and they are out for vengeance.

The everyday family problems and joys Joanne Kilbourn experiences as she solves baffling murder cases have endeared her to a growing number of fans, as have the television movies, starring Wendy Crewson as Joanne. The seventh novel in Gail Bowen’s much-loved series, Burying Ariel offers readers an imaginative, compassionate, and, above all, challenging mystery.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #237876 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-25
• Released on: 2001-09-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 272 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Burying Ariel: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery, by Canadian author Gail Bowen (A Killing Spring), enmeshes the series star in an unofficial investigation of the murder of a female university colleague. Grief, feminist retribution for male violence, the self-incriminating words of the victim's boyfriend and competing theories and theorists on the case all conspire, however unsuccessfully, to lead stoic Joanne astray.

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Review
Praise for the Joanne Kilbourn Series:

Deadly Appearances
?Gail Bowen has written a compelling novel infused with a subtext that?s both inventive and diabolical. Her future as a crime writer is no mystery.?
?Montreal Gazette

Murder at the Mendel
?A third of the novel is a tense, masterfully written character study; then the killings begin?Bold and powerful.?
?Publishers Weekly

The Wandering Soul Murders
?Bowen?s best book to date.?She pulls her complicated story together around a shocking and all-too-realistic secret?
?Globe and Mail

A Colder Kind of Death
?A delightful blend of vicious murder, domestic interactions, and political infighting that is guaranteed to entertain.?
?Quill & Quire

A Killing Spring
?A page-turner. More than a good mystery novel, it is a good novel, driving the reader deeper into a character who grows more interesting and alive with each book.?
?LOOKwest

Verdict in Blood
?Once again, Canada?s sleuth scores with readers. Bowen reaches out to grab her audience with her first sentence of this page-turner and she doesn?t let go until her satisfying conclusion.?
?Canadian Press -- Review

Review
Praise for the Joanne Kilbourn Series:

Deadly Appearances
“Gail Bowen has written a compelling novel infused with a subtext that’s both inventive and diabolical. Her future as a crime writer is no mystery.”
–Montreal Gazette

Murder at the Mendel
“A third of the novel is a tense, masterfully written character study; then the killings begin…Bold and powerful.”
–Publishers Weekly

The Wandering Soul Murders
“Bowen’s best book to date.…She pulls her complicated story together around a shocking and all-too-realistic secret”
–Globe and Mail

A Colder Kind of Death
“A delightful blend of vicious murder, domestic interactions, and political infighting that is guaranteed to entertain.”
–Quill & Quire

A Killing Spring
“A page-turner. More than a good mystery novel, it is a good novel, driving the reader deeper into a character who grows more interesting and alive with each book.”
–LOOKwest

Verdict in Blood
“Once again, Canada’s sleuth scores with readers. Bowen reaches out to grab her audience with her first sentence of this page-turner and she doesn’t let go until her satisfying conclusion.”
–Canadian Press

Customer Reviews

One of the best "Joanne Kilbourn" mysteries!
For her creation, and maintenance, of a heroine who is not in the early years of her life, Gail Bowen deserves a lot of credit. Joanne Kilbourn, first introduced to us in "Deadly Appearances" has aged with grace and style by the time we get to "Burying Ariel," and this book shows no sign of her character declining.

Mixing in Joanne's daily life with the sudden stabbing-murder of a loved teacher on campus with ehr usual deft touch, Bowen has definitely left the pattern of every murder being tied so someone in Joanne's past (something that was starting to get a little bit hard to swallow in some of her previous books). This murder is connected to her solely by the place Joanne works, the university, and a respect she had for the deceased.

Tying in radical feminists, student protests, and angry pointed fingers at a man who may have confessed - or merely said the wrong thing at the wrong time - keep the plot humming in this Kilbourn mystery. And as always, it is the depth of character in both villains and hero(ine)s of the book that immerse you totally in what is going on.

Big cheers for Gail Bowen, Canada's Lady of Mystery!

'Nathan

Exciting academic murder mystery
In Regina, Canada, everyone associated with the university is stunned to learn that someone killed twenty-seven year old Professor Ariel Warren. The culprit stabbed the popular political science lecturer in the back.

The police have several suspects from a professor previously accused of sexual harassment to Ariel's boy friend radio star Charlie D. The campus' militant women feel Ariel is the victim of a male animal and use her vigil to further their goals rather than as a memorial to the deceased. Realizing the campus is divided and turning ugly, Professor Joanne Kilbourn who has known Ariel for two decades begins to make her own inquiries not yet realizing where the danger really comes from.

BURYING ARIEL is an exciting academic murder mystery that provides insight into extreme campus politics. Readers will take pleasure from the story line though they will wonder how the vigil turned ugly so quickly. The characters seem genuine especially Joanne, her family, and most of the political science department. Though the killer's motive seems stretched, the audience will find the latest Kilbourn Canadian who-done-it to be a delightful amateur sleuth tale.

Harriet Klausner