title: A Colder Kind of Death (A Joanna Kilbourn mystery)
author:  Gail Bowen 
description: The fourth and positively best novel in the Joanne Kilbourn series.A terrific story with a slick twist at the end.<br /><i>Globe and Mail</i><br /><br />A delightful blend of vicious murder, domestic interactions, and political infighting that is guaranteed to entertain.<br /><i>Quill &amp; Quire</i><br /><br />A classic Bowen, engrossing and finally, believable.<br /><i>Mystery Review</i><br /><br />A denouement filled with enough curves to satisfy any mystery fan.<br /><i>Saskatoon Star-Phoenix</i>
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  Pushing past the butler, Joanna stumbled over the threshold, her chilled body
  drawing her like a moth to the flames dancing on the hearth.
  
  In her dazed and exhausted mind, images swirled before her eyes: the rain-
  swept road. Her stiff cold fingers. Her empty purse.
  
  She felt as if she were swaying in a high wind. The disapproval on the face of
  the tall man by the hearth was the last thing she saw before the images
  dissolved and she slipped into blackness.
  
  Consternation tempering his irritation, Ned hastened to catch the girl before
  her head hit the wooden floor. As he gathered her up, glancing about him to
  determine where to deposit his soggy burden, he realized his first impression
  had been wrong.
  
  Before she fainted, he’d noted little more than large dark eyes, a determined
  little chin and the fact that she was dripping all over the carpet. But though
  her body was short and slender, this was no girl he held in his arms, but a
  woman.
  
  His sleepy body roused abrupt