Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Happy St. David’s Day!
I must spend it packing; for those of you with reading time, I highly recommend Ann Cleeves’s Murder in My Backyard, which is part of her terrific Inspector Ramsay series. From her website: “No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry… but here she is, murdered in her own backyard…
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Art Crimes and Misdemeanours
When I was in high school, a friend and I often hung out at Café Wim on Sussex, near the current location of the National Gallery. Safdie’s glass and metal marvel was still under construction, and it was sited in such a way that it mirrored the Parliament Buildings across from it. Ottawa was an…
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Dial M for Murder: From Grace Kelly to a Lesbian Update
Grace Kelly as Margot and Anthony Dawson as her would-be killer; a still from the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film. Earlier in February I spent several days in Vancouver conducting interviews and doing background research for two features that I’m hoping to finish up over the next few months. One is on the play’s director, the…
