The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch

  • Newspaper Coverage of Crime Fiction

    I’ve been grumpy for some time about how diminished the Globe & Mail‘s book coverage has been, lo these many years. I miss having a Books section, with a weekly column on crime fiction by Margaret Cannon. (Dream job!) That’s down to once a month or less, and it’s more of a quick round-up. But…

  • Campus Violence

    A student at the college where I teach was murdered last month; Naomi Sturrock was studying massage therapy, and her loss is being felt profoundly. From the Times-Colonist coverage, this sentence caught my eye: “The attack is believed to be isolated and poses no ongoing risk to public safety, police said.” But femicide is, of…

  • Harnessing the Power of Women’s Rage: From Crime Fiction to the Screen and Stage

    “The nitty gritty of life is anger, and a sense of injustice.” –Patricia Highsmith I’m trying to recall which crime writer said that when she got angry at someone, she turned them into the victim in her next book. That intrigued me, notwithstanding my possibly faulty recollection and my failure to attribute the quotation. Surely…