Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Kathy Reichs’s Déja Dead: A Great Series Begins
This week has been a Faulknerian one for me: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” I’ve experienced multiple forms of déja vu all over again, to quote Yogi Berra. So it’s a perfect time to return to the 1997 first novel in Kathy Reichs’s celebrated series of crime novels featuring forensic anthropologist…
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On Still Not Knowing Greek, Alice Munro, and Theresa Kishkan
Illness, Virginia Woolf, and Sylvia Plath I’m re-reading Virginia Woolf this week: To the Lighthouse, and some letters and re-edited journals, with a dip into Quentin Bell’s early 1970s and rather severe biography for additional context. Bell is, of course, Woolf’s nephew, and I came to his biography back in high school, before I read…
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Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead Included on Time’s Top 100 Mystery and Thrillers List
In their recent issue, also available online, Time Magazine offers top-100 list, put together by some of the biggest names in contemporary crime fiction, alongside several intriguing mystery-themed articles, including Rachel Howzell Hall’s “The Rich, Underappreciated History of Mystery Writers of Color.“ This Time feature issue was brought to my attention by no less than…
