Gail Bowen,
"With her first three Joanne Kilbourn mysteries - Deadly Appearances (published in 1990 and nominated for the W.H. Smith - Books in Canada award for best first novel), Murder at the Mendel (1991) (Love and Murder in the U.S.A) and The Wandering Soul Murders (1992) - Gail Bowen became "a name to reckon with in Canadian mystery letters," as the Edmonton Journal put it. In 1995, her fourth Joanne Kilbourn mystery, A Colder Kind of Death, won the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel. Assistant professor of English at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College, University of Regina, the Toronto born Gail Bowen lives in Regina with her husband, Ted and their three children." This was taken from the back cover of her third book. There have since been many more. Gail Bowen also serves as Saskatchewan correspondent on CBC 1's morning national radio show "This morning". She is a real asset to Saskatchewan's proud face.
© Mark Sexton