Category: L.R. Wright
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Adapting Canadian Crime Fiction: L.R. Wright’s Murder in a Small Town, and Adaptations of Louise Penny’s Gamache/Three Pines Books
A second season of Fox’s Murder in a Small Town has started shooting on the Sunshine Coast, and locals are happy. The production has injected $4 million into the area’s economy, and while the series leads are not all from B.C., they are Canadian. RCMP Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg is played by Rossif Sutherland, previously…
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Three Pines: Adapting Louise Penny’s Gamache Novels
Adaptations of Canadian mystery fiction are sometimes ephemeral or short-lived. I’ve been unable to track down copies of the series of TV films based on Gail Bowen’s Joanne Kilbourn novels, although it sounds like there were significant changes. For instance, IMDB describes the character in The Wandering Soul Murders–one of Bowen’s grimmest novels, featuring a…
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L. R. Wright and the Sunshine Coast
L.R. Wright hasn’t been receiving the attention she deserves in recent decades. Her groundbreaking, award-winning novels were well-regarded during the 1980s and 1990s. She was the first Canadian to win an Edgar, for her first mystery novel, The Suspect. But after her death in 2001, which curtailed her new series featuring RCMP officer Edwina Henderson,…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 