The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch

  • Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

    Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five shifts the focus from the shadowy figure of the 1888 Whitechapel serial killer who came to be known as Jack the Ripper to the women he murdered. The Five is a deeply researched social history. Rubenhold isn’t interested in trying to identify the killer or in delving into the gruesome details…

  • Janice Hallett’s The Silent Appeal

    With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. Janice Hallett’s The Silent Appeal is due out in late August in Canada and the U.S., and in early September in the UK (which is, itself, a bit of a mystery for a new British crime novel: it’s more common for the North American publication…

  • Don Gillmor’s Cherry Beach

    The Literary Review of Canada doesn’t cover all that many crime novels, but Cherry Beach, a 2026 book published by Biblioasis and written by a veteran Canadian journalist and novelist, deserves to be treated as an exception. This is a taut, atmospheric book, and it’s an indictment of class interests and racism. Kevin Jagernauth’s perceptive…