The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch

  • Iceland and International Women’s Day 2025

    In the new documentary The Day Iceland Stood Still, director Pamela Hogan revisits October 24, 1975, when 90% of Iceland’s women walked off the job–at work and at home. For one day, they insisted, men could pay attention to how much they did, and how little their contributions were appreciated and rewarded. On International Women’s…

  • Spring Book Haul

    I don’t typically accumulate a substantial number of mysteries when I’m already in the midst of reading several new books. And I need to finish up Eliza Reid’s Death on the Island (with thanks to NetGalley for the preview) and Janice Hallett’s art school-email mystery, which manages to make an LMS messaging tool interesting. But…

  • Canadian Patriotism and Crime Fiction

    Twenty years ago, I was teaching Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto. I would screen Molson’s “I Am Canadian” during a class early in the term when we were talking about Canadian cultural nationalism. The goal was to contrast the muted expression of Canadian patriotism with a more jingoistic American approach, and then link…