The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Ausma Zehanat Khan’s Getty-Khattak Series and A Deadly Divide

    Ausma Zehanat Khan is the dizzyingly accomplished author of five novels and a short story featuring the unlikely pairing (in a genuinely innovative take on the trope) of Muslim Canadian senior investigator Esa Khattak and the perceptive and dogged but insecure Rachel Getty. They work together on a unique initiative, a Toronto-based community policing team…

  • 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…