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Verdict in Bloodis Gail Bowen’s sixth novel featuring Joanne Kilbourn, one of Canada’s most beloved sleuths. Teacher, friend, lover, single mother, and now grandmother, Joanne has a quick intelligence and a boundless compassion, which repeatedly get her into – and out of – trouble. InVerdict in Blood, Joanne’s good friend Hilda McCourt is visiting her in Regina, Saskatchewan, when Judge Justine Blackwell’s corpse is found sprawled across one of the limestone slabs of the Boy Scout memorial in Wascana Park. Blackwell, known for the harsh sentences she’s handed down over the years, had lately been seeking out people she’d once incarcerated and trying to help them. Had she had a genuine change of heart, or had she been getting senile? Even the fearsome judge herself had wondered. Just the night before her death, she’d asked Hilda to make an assessment of her mental condition. Now she’s dead, the matter is urgent: Which of her two wills should prevail – the one leaving everything to her daughters, including the famous sixties singer Lucy Blackwell, or the one leaving it all to Culhane House, a halfway house for ex-cons? Whoever stood to lose could be her murderer, and Hilda has to decide. Before too long, Joanne (who has problems enough of her own with her lover, Alex, and his troubled nephew, Eli) finds herself once again embroiled in intrigue.… (meer)
As expected this was another great mystery from a Canadian writer.
In this book, Joanne Kilbourn is spending the Labour Day weekend with her kids, her lover, Alex Kequahtooway, his nephew, Eli and her friend Hilda. Unfortunately Eli disappeared from the CFL game they were attending after he heard a racist remark. Then an early morning call for Hilda reveals that Madame Justice Justine Blackwell, a good friend of Hilda's, has been brutally murdered. Eli turns up but has no recollection of what he did in the intervening time. Although Justine has three grownup daughters, Hilda is asked to deal with the media and handle other matters. Just before her death Justine had asked Hilda to assess her mental capacity because some people thought she was acting irrationally. This irrationality was based on the fact that Justine had realized she had treated accused persons who appeared before her callously and she was trying to make amends. Hilda decides to continue the job Justine gave her. Joanne has her hands full with the start of school, the birth of her first grandchild and helping Alex with Eli but Justine's death hangs over them all.
Joanne is a superwoman. She teaches, she appears on a TV show, she's a great mom and a good cook. She even gardens and maintains a home and she has time to be in a loving relationship that brings its own trials. On top of all that, she solves crimes. When I'm reading these books Bowen makes it all sound so plausible but now I'm done I think it's a good thing this is a work of fiction. Nobody could be that perfect! But it does make for a captivating read. ( )
Verdict in Bloodis Gail Bowen’s sixth novel featuring Joanne Kilbourn, one of Canada’s most beloved sleuths. Teacher, friend, lover, single mother, and now grandmother, Joanne has a quick intelligence and a boundless compassion, which repeatedly get her into – and out of – trouble. InVerdict in Blood, Joanne’s good friend Hilda McCourt is visiting her in Regina, Saskatchewan, when Judge Justine Blackwell’s corpse is found sprawled across one of the limestone slabs of the Boy Scout memorial in Wascana Park. Blackwell, known for the harsh sentences she’s handed down over the years, had lately been seeking out people she’d once incarcerated and trying to help them. Had she had a genuine change of heart, or had she been getting senile? Even the fearsome judge herself had wondered. Just the night before her death, she’d asked Hilda to make an assessment of her mental condition. Now she’s dead, the matter is urgent: Which of her two wills should prevail – the one leaving everything to her daughters, including the famous sixties singer Lucy Blackwell, or the one leaving it all to Culhane House, a halfway house for ex-cons? Whoever stood to lose could be her murderer, and Hilda has to decide. Before too long, Joanne (who has problems enough of her own with her lover, Alex, and his troubled nephew, Eli) finds herself once again embroiled in intrigue.
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In this book, Joanne Kilbourn is spending the Labour Day weekend with her kids, her lover, Alex Kequahtooway, his nephew, Eli and her friend Hilda. Unfortunately Eli disappeared from the CFL game they were attending after he heard a racist remark. Then an early morning call for Hilda reveals that Madame Justice Justine Blackwell, a good friend of Hilda's, has been brutally murdered. Eli turns up but has no recollection of what he did in the intervening time. Although Justine has three grownup daughters, Hilda is asked to deal with the media and handle other matters. Just before her death Justine had asked Hilda to assess her mental capacity because some people thought she was acting irrationally. This irrationality was based on the fact that Justine had realized she had treated accused persons who appeared before her callously and she was trying to make amends. Hilda decides to continue the job Justine gave her. Joanne has her hands full with the start of school, the birth of her first grandchild and helping Alex with Eli but Justine's death hangs over them all.
Joanne is a superwoman. She teaches, she appears on a TV show, she's a great mom and a good cook. She even gardens and maintains a home and she has time to be in a loving relationship that brings its own trials. On top of all that, she solves crimes. When I'm reading these books Bowen makes it all sound so plausible but now I'm done I think it's a good thing this is a work of fiction. Nobody could be that perfect! But it does make for a captivating read. (