Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Tarot Cards, Dark Academia, and Atwood
Image: Eight Tarot Cards from the Whitney Museum’s Pamela Colman Smith collection. Things I don’t believe in: magic and divination; astrology and second sight; ghosts and haunting. Things that have, very occasionally, prompted me to pause and re-think my assumptions: all of the above. Victoria is a west coast woo-woo place, and I have only…
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Scarpetta and Bones: Adapting Novels about Forensic Science and Reflecting on True Crime
Photo credit: Prime Video My tolerance for gore is low; psychological horror is fine, but nothing involving detached body parts, thanks. Yet I’ve read a number of Patricia Cornwell’s novels and all of Kathy Reichs’s fiction; I’m currently reading the latest, and I’m drafting a chapter on her Montreal-North Carolina-set crime stories. Last September, I…
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The New Louise Penny Novel . . . and the Other New Louise Penny Novel
I’m reading The Last Mandarin (with thanks to NetGalley and the novel’s publisher), a collaboration by two terrific authors: Louise Penny, of course, and Mellissa Fung, a Canadian journalist and former foreign correspondent, and the author of the gripping memoir Under an Afghan Sky. Fung’s first book describes how, in 2008, she was kidnapped in…
