Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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The Murders in Great Diddling: Katarina Bivald Revises and Parodies the Cozy
The Edgar nominations were announced last month, and Katarina Bivald’s The Murders in Great Diddling is up for the Lilian Jackson Braun Award for best new cozy mystery. In the cozy, as the name suggests, the violence is off-stage and not off-putting. The victim may be widely disliked as in Bivald’s book, or the crime…
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A Tale of Two Tillys, and Writing About Trauma
Some years ago, Meg Tilly moved to my neighbourhood. Soon thereafter people started reporting sightings of actor-turned-writer Colin Firth, the father of Tilly’s two children. Darcy in Oak Bay! We were previously only graced by Bill Nighy, who has local friends and frequents Ivy’s Bookshop, much to the delight of the well-informed ladies dishing out…
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Denise Mina and Scottish Crime Fiction
My thoughts have turned to Bloody Scotland, because I’ve persuaded my child that their graduation trip this fall should include a crime fiction festival, even though it is not their preferred genre. We’ll spend time in Edinburgh, which we visited nearly a decade ago, before going on to Stirling. But I’m pondering whether we need…
