num_pages: 222
description: ON A HOT AUGUST AFTERNOON a picnic is being held to celebrate the election of Andy Boychuk as leader of Saskatchewan's Official Opposition. All of the key people in Boychuk's lifefamily, friends, enemieshave gathered. About to begin his speech, Boychuk takes a sip of water from a glass on the lectern. Within seconds he is dead. Joanne Kilbourn, Boychuk's speechwriter, is stunned, but she is no stranger to sudden deathher own husband was brutally murdered several years before. While trying to help Boychuk's widow through the trauma, Joanne delves into his past, and unexpectedly enters a world of concealed passions and sexual intrigue. When someone tries to stop her, Joanne, an almost typical middle-aged woman, sets off to solve the caseher first on the way to becoming Canada's pre-eminent reluctant sleuth.
language: English
title: Deadly Appearances
titlecomplete: Deadly Appearances (A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery #1)
characters: Maurice Ravel (Deadly Appearances), Howard Dowhaniuk, Natalie Wood (Deadly Appearances), Mieka, Peter and Angus Kilbourn, A trainer with the Riders, Charlie and Lane Appleby, Jimmy Durante (M is for Malice), James Beard (Deadly Appearances), Lester Pearson (Deadly Appearances), Gregory Peck (Heart of the Sanibel Sunset Detective), Vincent van Gogh (Chosen Prey), Henny Penny (Deadly Appearances), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Deadly Appearances), Alfred E. Neuman (Deadly Appearances), A woman in blue (Deadly Appearances), Margaret Laurence (Deadly Appearances), Eric Primrose, Lord Tennyson (Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts), Little Orphan Annie (The Murder of Sherlock Holmes), Roma Boychuk, William Blake (The Camel Club), Eve Boychuk, Thomas Mann (Deadly Appearances), Kelly Sobchuk, Lorraine Bellegarde and Janice Summers, Frida Kahlo (Deadly Appearances), Dr. Philip Lee, John F. Kennedy (Time Bomb), Mark and Lori Evanson, Aldous Huxley (Deadly Appearances), Donald O'Connor (Deadly Appearances), James Taylor (Deadly Appearances), Dave Micklejohn, Rick Spenser, Andy Boychuk, John Keats (Deadly Appearances), Two young people (Deadly Appearances), Colin Grant, C.P. Snow (Deadly Appearances), Carey Boychuk, Carlyle Wise, Jean-Paul Sartre (Little White Lies), Helke de Vries, Friedrich Nietzsche (Deadly Appearances), Dennis Whittaker, Miller Millard, Fyodor Dostoevski (Deadly Appearances), Lachlan MacNeil, Ingmar Bergman (Deadly Appearances), Ray Lewis, Soren Eames, Ali Sutherland, John Galsworthy (Deadly Appearances), Bette Davis (Blood Test), Margaret Trudeau (Deadly Appearances), Father Mickey Tilley, Lady Gregory (Deadly Appearances), Marcel Proust (Deadly Appearances), Ian Kilbourn, Barbara Ann Scott (Deadly Appearances), Jussi Bjorling (Deadly Appearances), Phaeton (Deadly Appearances), Debby Boone (Deadly Appearances), Nancy Drew (Someone to Watch Over Me), Zeus and Hermes (Murder Sees the Light), Craig and Julie Evanson, Hilda McCourt, Debbie Reynolds (Deadly Appearances), Ayn Rand (Bye Bye Baby), Shirley Temple (Silent Partner), Tudor and Madeline Lorscott, Deanna Durbin (Deadly Appearances), D.H. Lawrence (Deadly Appearances), Timothy Leary (Deadly Appearances), Joanne Kilbourn, William Shakespeare (Blackfly Season)
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Thriller, Adult, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Detective, Canada, Mystery
ratings_count: 921
places: Port Durham, Ontario, Regina, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Wolf River, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
series: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery
publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd