Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Sex & Sensitivity
Val McDermid, of all people, needed a sensitivity reader for the re-issue of her earliest crime fiction, the wonderful Lindsay Gordon novels. But hear me out: this is actually a good thing, not an indication of “snowflake culture” or generational divides. I read the novels soon after they were published, and one of the things…
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Robbie Burns Day: Scottish Crime Fiction and Food
A very brief post. I’m reading Val McDermid’s new Karen Pirie novel, Silent Bones. It is, of course, terrific. Scottish crime fiction is fascinating, and I’ve written about Denise Mina and a few other writers previously, but it’s worth repeating: some of the most exciting developments in the police procedural, the domestic thriller, and the…
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Amy Stuart Writes Terrific Domestic Thrillers
I don’t read a lot of domestic thrillers, and I recently excised the genre from my book project because the ones by Canadian authors, both male and female–Linwood Barclay and Shari Lapena may be our best-known international exports in this sub-genre–are almost never set in identifiable Canadian locales. And the whole point of my project…
