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Joanne Kilbourn series - Book 10
McClelland & Stewart
September 2006
240 pages
ISBN: 0771016549
Hardcover
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Mystery Woman Sleuth
When journalist Kathryn Morrissey’s sensational book on
the lives of thirteen adult children of prominent
Canadians is published, one of the parents, Sam Parker, is
furious enough to take a pot shot at the author, grazing
her shoulder. Charges are laid, and Joanne’s new beau,
Zack Shreve, is hired by Parker as his defence counsel. At
the trial, which Joanne is covering for NationTV, Shreve
focuses the jury’s attention not on who shot whom, but on
why — on the ethics governing the relationship between a
journalist and her subject. Morrissey’s betrayal of her subjects opens up questions
about an even more serious betrayal — the betrayal of
children by their parents. While everyone condemns Parker
for taking a gun to Morrissey, no one can fault his
defence of his only child, Glen, a transsexual. The mutual
love and commitment between this father and child stands
in stark contrast to the alienation between Howard
Dowhaniuk, Saskatchewan’s former premier, and his son,
Charlie. On the day of the verdict, Morrissey is brutally murdered,
and Joanne’s investigation quickly has her trying to
unravel the endless knot of the relationship between
parent and child.
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