The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch

  • Samantha M. Bailey’s Watch Out for Her: Thrillers and Canada Reads

    Until this week, a thriller had never made the short list for Canada Reads. Alas, Olympic swimmer Maggie Mac Neil only had one day on the program to champion the novel she’d selected, Samantha M. Bailey’s 2022 domestic thriller Watch Out for Her. The novel features a family starting over in a disquieting rental house…

  • Con Men and Hit Men

    For a project, I’ve been researching romance fraud, where people are bilked of a lot of money (sometimes all of their money) by someone who is purporting to be a new love interest with a desperate need for cash. I’m less interested in the figure of the confidence man than in the women who fall…

  • Canada-U.S. Relations and Louise Penny’s Fiction

    Borders and citizenship have been on my mind. In the current climate, it feels more necessary to attend to the relationship between the two countries than I had intended to do in my book project. My teaching materials on Canadian cultural nationalism and sovereignty and American cultural imperialism are getting a dust-off for revision in…