The Wandering Soul Murders
Gail Bowen, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-10574-7
Canadian Bowen's latest, after Love and Murder , is a harrowing look at the difficulties faced by those trying to break away from the effects of an abusive childhood. University instructor Joanne Kilbourn is horrified when her grown daughter Mieka finds the body of Bernice, a teenaged office cleaner, hanging out of a dumpster. Although it looks as though Bernice is another victim in a series of prostitute killings, significant details--including a teddy bear tattoo on the girl's buttocks--persuade police that it is a copycat murder. Concurrently, Mieka prepares for her wedding and Jo's son Peter is pursued by obsessive Christy Sinclair. When Christy becomes an apparent suicide, Jo is surprised to find herself listed as Christy's next of kin; then she learns that Christy also had a teddy bear tattoo. Investigating both deaths, Jo and her TV news director friend Jill run up against an unsavory secret being kept on an island in the northern Canadian woods. This poignant story exposes the danger that can hide in good intentions as Jo's efforts uncover the surprising identity of a sex ring's mastermind and put her young adopted daughter Taylor in danger. (Mar.)
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Reviewed on: 02/28/1994
Release date: 03/01/1994
Genre: Fiction
Mass Market Paperbound - 216 pages - 9780771014949
Open Ebook - 132 pages - 9780771013188
Paperback - 214 pages - 9780771013195
Mass Market Paperbound - 216 pages - 9780771014819
Hardcover - 207 pages - 9781550540697