{"product_id":"the-winners-circle-isbn-9780771024078","title":"The Winners' Circle","description":"\u003cb\u003eGail Bowen continues to enthrall with her masterfully compelling storytelling in Book 17 of her nationally bestselling Joanne Kilbourn series, combining a modern urban family with a gripping, satisfying mystery.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e     As Joanne Kilbourn-Shreve, her husband, Zack, and their soon-to-be seventeen-year-old daughter, Taylor, rush through the rain from their cottage to their car, the Thanksgiving weekend they just spent at the lake with Zack's law partners is already slipping away, burnished into memory as pleasantly as the hundreds of other weekends the Falconer-Shreve families have shared at Lawyers' Bay. Thoughts of the weekend past will now focus on the future and be prefaced by the words \"next time.\"\u003cbr\u003e     Within weeks, a triple homicide will rip apart the lives of those related to the lawyers who, at the end of their first year in law school, only half-jokingly styled themselves \"The Winners' Circle.\" Dazed by grief, Joanne will seek answers to an impossible question: \"Why did they die?\" \u003cbr\u003e     The facts behind the suicide of Christopher Altieri, known by his law partners as \"the conscience of The Winners' Circle,\" appear to provide insights, but for Joanne those insights raise new, unsettling questions. Knitting this powerful narrative together is Joanne's unshakeable belief that the only thing worse than knowing is not knowing.\u003cb\u003ePraise for Gail Bowen and the Joanne Kilbourn series:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • \"Remarkable . . .\" --\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • \"In all of Canadian crime, Joanne and her creator are among the most dependably enduring.\" --\u003ci\u003eLondon Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • \"The reliable Bowen virtues -- deftly drawn characters, unusual twists and turns of plot, plenty of authentic details about contemporary Canadian life, and, of course, the irrepressible and genteel upper-middle class sleuth, Joanne Kilbourn. . . . Confirm[s] Bowen's growing reputation as 'the queen of Canadian crime fiction.'\" --\u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e • \"Regina author Gail Bowen has crafted such character studies that one wants to linger with them, to watch their lives unfold, to bask in the warmth, strength and wisdom of Joanne's character. . . . Although most of Bowen's awards are in the crime-writing genre, her own gift is as a storyteller, a gift she fortunately shares with readers.\" --\u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003eGAIL BOWEN's first Joanne Kilbourn mystery, \u003ci\u003eDeadly Appearances\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), was nominated for the W.H. Smith\/Books in Canada Best First Novel Award, and \u003ci\u003eA Colder Kind of Death\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel; all sixteen previous books in the series have been enthusiastically reviewed. In 2008, \u003ci\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/i\u003e named Bowen Canada's Best Mystery Novelist; in 2009 she received the Derrick Murdoch Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. Bowen has also written plays that have been produced across Canada and on CBC Radio. Now retired from teaching at the First Nations University, Gail Bowen lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303152865509,"sku":"NP9780771024078","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771024078.jpg?v=1767742233","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-winners-circle-isbn-9780771024078","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}