Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Gail Bowen’s The Solitary Friend
In The Solitary Friend (ECW Press), Gail Bowen revisits themes and characters that have peppered her mystery series over more than three decades.
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Eric Wright and Canadian Academic Crime Fiction
I’ve been researching mystery stories set on Canadian campuses, and that’s directed me to writers I’ve intended to read for years, including the prolific Eric Wright (1929-2015). Wright authored four crime fiction series, and his achievement is especially impressive given his relatively late start as a novelist. The first decades of his career were taken…
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Louise Hegarty’s Fair Play and Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Suite 11
Crime fiction has strict-ish genre conventions, with distinctive expectations for police procedurals, noir-type thrillers, and domestic cozies. In one new novel, a debut author from Ireland has fun–with a serious intent–exploring how mystery conventions can offer reassuring certainty, in the wake of a sudden and unexpected death. And in another, an internationally acclaimed crime writer…
