Kaleidoscope
Subtitle: a Joanne Kilbourn mystery
By: Gail Bowen
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780771016899
Subjects: Real estate development; Joanne Kilbourn (Fictitious character); Women college teachers; Fiction
Description: On the day Joanne Kilbourn retires from her university teaching post, she has a dream about her first husband (murdered many years ago). Soon, she is forced to experience the truth of what, for most of her life, had just been a good closing line for a political speech. The night after Jo and Zack have dinner with Zack's colleague Margot and one of his law firm's biggest clients, the developer Leland Hunter, Jo and Zack's house is blown up. They're at the lake with daughter Taylor and their dogs, but the house is destroyed. And that is only the first of several terrible incidents. It isn't long before Joanne is witness to events far more distressing than even a destroyed home. She begins to understand what it's like to live in a world where she can count on nothing.