Fit to Die
A Ladies Killing Circle Anthology
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2001
- Category
- Short Stories, Anthologies (multiple authors), General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780929141879
- Publish Date
- Oct 2001
- List Price
- $14.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459716940
- Publish Date
- Oct 2001
- List Price
- $6.99
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Description
Sport, fitness, games and murder are the main themes of this collection of wicked and witty crime fiction and poetry by the Ladies’ Killing Circle, who brought you Menopause is Murder and Cottage Country Killers. From the gym to the golf course to the supposedly peaceful practice of tai chi, murder, rage and revenge refuse to respect the human quest for immortality through fitness and can victimize the most tanned and toned bodies as easily as those of couch potatoes and gourmands. Excessive good health can lead to an early demise in this energetic new anthology. You’ll watch your back in the hot tub after reading this book…
About the authors
Joan Boswell was born in Toronto and grew up in Ottawa, Edmonton, Oakville and Halifax. She received her BA from the University of New Brunswick, married and moved to the Northern Quebec bush. After two years she and her husband relocated to London, Ontario, where she attended Teachers’ College and taught on the Six Nations Oneida Indian Reserve. Moving to Ottawa, she obtained an MA in Canadian Studies from Carleton University and a PhD from the University of Ottawa. Her thesis grew out of her experience with and interest in the Six Nations. During her many years in academia she won several prizes as well as a Ford Foundation Fellowship, and Canada Council grants. These enabled her to continue her studies and pay for sitters to care for her four sons who grew up hating the sound of the typewriter. Throughout her life, she has painted and eventually the compulsion to improve and spend more time being creative overwhelmed her and she returned to the University of Ottawa to complete the course work for a BFA. After ten solo shows and four posters produced by Posters International, she again switched her focus. This time writing was the attraction. She attended the Humber School of Writing and took a Humber College Correspondence Course with Isabel Huggin. As a writer, Joan has had work published in magazines and anthologies in Canada and the United States. As a member of the Ladies’ Killing Circle, she has had stories in each of their six books: The Ladies’ Killing Circle, Cottage Country Killers, Menopause Is Murder, Fit to Die, Bone Dance and When Boomers Go Bad. She has also co-edited the last three books. In 2000, she won the $10,000 Toronto Sunday Star short story contest. Cut Off His Tale was her first novel. The second in the Hollis Grant series, Cut to the Quick, followed in 2007, and the third, Cut to the Chase, in 2009.
Other titles by
The Ladies Killing Circle Anthology 4-Book Bundle
Fit to Die / Bone Dance / When Boomers Go Bad / Going Out With a Bang
Hollis Grant Mysteries 4-Book Bundle
Cut Off His Tale / Cut to the Quick / Cut to the Chase / Cut to the Bone
Cut to the Bone
A Hollis Grant Mystery
Cut to the Chase
A Hollis Grant Mystery
Going Out With a Bang
A Ladies Killing Circle Anthology
Cut to the Quick
A Hollis Grant Mystery
When Boomers Go Bad
A Ladies Killing Circle Anthology
Cut Off His Tale
A Hollis Grant Mystery
Bone Dance
A Ladies Killing Circle Anthology