The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch

  • Considering Alice Munro

    I’ve been spending a fair amount of time working on a Munro chapter, in my Canadian women’s crime fiction book. The revisions since the spring have been rather more extensive than I’d anticipated. I thought I was writing about how Munro depicts violent crime, or suspicion that crimes have been committed, in a range of…

  • The Gen X Career Meltdown and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl

    Gillian Flynn has been keeping busy with various projects, but there’s little news about her recent creative output. Perhaps it’s difficult to embark on a new book when you’ve had a novel go supernova, like Gone Girl did in 2012? A bestseller adapted to film. A cultural touchstone. The origin of one of the most…

  • “Murder to Music”: Helene Hanff Writes for Ellery Queen

    In 84, Charing Cross Road (her compilation of correspondence with a London bookstore over two decades), New York writer Helene Hanff describes a new project that may earn her enough money to finally visit England: writing for Ellery Queen, which was being adapted to television. The name was only vaguely familiar to me from long-ago…