Award-winning mystery writer Gail Bowen's first three masterful mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Joanne Kilbourn are now collected in a single volume. In <i>Deadly Appearances</i>, a successful politician sips his water before a speech at a picnic on a sweltering August afternoon and, within seconds, he is dead; in <i>Murder at the Mendel</i>, Joanne's childhood friend may have a far more complicated, far more sordid, and far more deadly past than Joanne knows about; and in <i>The Wandering Soul Murders</i>, a centre for street kids holds a dark and disturbing secret, forcing Joanne to act when her own children are drawn into a web of intrigue that will leave you breathless.