12 Rose Street, Gail Bowen
12 Rose Street, Gail Bowen
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12 Rose Street
A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

Author: Gail Bowen

Narrator: Athena Karkanis

Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 12/15/2021


Synopsis

The indomitable Joanne Kilbourn is back! From beloved author Gail Bowen comes the 15th installment in the nationally bestselling series. For readers of Louise Penny, Ruth Rendell, and Peter Robinson.Joanne’s husband Zack is the leading progressive candidate in a neck-and-neck race, with the existing mayor, for Regina’s top job. The tough campaigning is well underway when a disturbing threat disrupts the celebration for the opening of the Racette-Hunter Centre — a project Zack has been spearheading, intended to benefit the impoverished community of North Central Regina. Joanne soon realizes that sinister interests are working behind the scenes of the election, and another savage act makes clear that someone will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo.The Shreve campaign perseveres, but when Zack's opponents share some shocking information about the past, the revelation sends Joanne reeling. As tensions around the election build, Joanne tries to hold herself together, keep her family intact, and get to the bottom of why a series of violent incidents, seemingly related to the mayoral race, all lead back to a mysterious property in North Central, 12 Rose Street.A gripping novel about family and friendship, competition and betrayal, 12 Rose Street confirms why Gail Bowen is indeed the “queen of Canadian crime fiction” (Winnipeg Free Press).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Annette on March 26, 2015

There are books as you turn every page it is a fairy tale. 12 Rose Street is not one of them. Yes, there are many loving scenes, but there are disturbing times which show the two sides of power, when it can be used to make rich richer or when power can be used to boost everyone up. The question Bowe......more

Goodreads review by Marianne on May 04, 2018

12 Rose Street by Gail Bowen Joanne Kilbourn is the main character in this crime novel written by the Canadian author, Gail Bowen. A former political science professor, she is managing the mayoralty campaign of her second husband, Zack Shreve, a paraplegic lawyer. The action occurs in the present dur......more

Goodreads review by Star on October 07, 2021

This is #15 in the Canadian Crime Series, and my first Joanne Kilbourne Mystery. The story is heavy on her family. There is a deceased husband, current husband, adult kids, a teenager , grand kids, etc. The premise is based on her current husband's political race. I wasn't impressed with that storyl......more

Goodreads review by Catherine on December 15, 2021

I found this book a bit hard to get into at first, and I felt confused by all of the characters. However, once I got into the book more, I started to understand it more and I enjoyed it. I liked Joanne and her husband, but I wasn't very keen on any of the other characters. Joanne and her husband hav......more

Goodreads review by Scott on May 29, 2023

Very well written. Being a former resident of Regina with family involved politics in Regina I found this book to be riveting and nostalgic.......more