Author: Heidi Tiedemann Darroch
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Food, Feminism, and Mystery Fiction
Beth Kalikoff, writing in 2006, called attention to the plethora of mystery novels, most of which were enduring series, that incorporated food directly into the murder plot and not always because the victim was poisoned. As she described, while noting that only limited critical attention had been paid to date to the phenomenon, mystery novels…
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The Mystery of Bestsellers
As part of my Certificate in Creative Writing at U of T, I’ve been trying to take a course on how to write bestsellers, but it’s been cancelled a couple of times in a row (surely not for lack of student interest?). I’m signing up again for a spring session, but the instructor is ominously…
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Writing Trauma in Crime Fiction
This is a brief post as I grapple with two very significant texts that inform my thinking about crime and trauma: Erin Wunker’s Notes from a Feminist Killjoy is a book of essays and in these varied pieces Wunker offers moving and critically rigorous hybrid personal/academic writing. It’s a book that I’ve returned to several…
