The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • The Dying Light: Forthcoming Ann Cleeves

    With thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan for this preview. The Dying Light, the new Matthew Venn mystery, will be out in early October in Canada and the U.S. A couple of weeks ago Ann Cleeves, Shetland Noir’s patron, appeared at a fun crime fiction festival that’s on my bucket list. Cleeves was discussing her two…

  • Marsha Mildon’s Stalking the Goddess Ship

    Marsha Mildon’s second Cal Meredith novel, set on the west coast of Vancouver Island and in Victoria where the fictional P.I. lives and works, is a thoughtfully plotted lesbian crime novel with an exceptional sense of place. Marguerite is an embattled feminist archaeologist in UVic’s fraught (and fictional) department of ancient cultures. Her theories about…

  • Having a Heatwave: Summer Crime Fiction

    It’s too darn hot, as per Cole Porter. The west coast is sweltering, and by 7AM this morning it was already 18 degrees, on its rapid way to 31, the air still and humid. The cat’s thrilled, stalking the scorched front yard grass (under close supervision) as she warms her aged bones; her human companions…