The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: book-review

  • Alafair Burke: A Crime (Writing) Family

    I’m nearly finished Alafair Burke’s new novel, The Note, which starts a bit slowly but then picks up, in a big way. And since I’ve never written on here about how much I enjoy both Burke’s fiction and (in a more moderate way) the prolific literary output of her father, James Lee Burke, this seems…

  • When Agatha Christie Disappeared

    Lucy Foley’s new (authorized) Miss Marple novel will be out in late September and it’s just had its cover reveal: The book trailer is stylish but more coy than informative. I do think Foley was clever to set her first Christie novel outside of St. Mary Mead, and Christie’s Marple did travel to a a…

  • Colin Dexter’s Oxford and Nora Kelly’s Cambridge (by Way of Cryptic Crosswords)

    I’ve just ordered a niche item, Colin Dexter’s Cracking Cryptic Crosswords. The late detective novelist, who spent his early career teaching Classics, was also a famed creator of crossword puzzles of a type that British audiences appreciate far more than American ones. A recent New Yorker piece describes how Wordle creator Josh Wardle has created…