Tag: book-review
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Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot and The Sequel
Four years ago, Jean Hanff Korelitz published The Plot, to near-universal acclaim. Now she’s followed up with The Sequel. Both are crime fiction in a sense, as murders take place and there are ample thrills. In these funny, knowing books, genre conventions and the distinctions between “literary” and “popular” fiction receive close scrutiny. Yet there…
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Victoria in the Spring: Iona Lam’s Fowl Play
Spring is real estate and cherry blossom season in Victoria. Locals search in vain for affordable new homes, and tourists flood off the cruise ships and ferries in search of souvenirs on Government Street. Iona Lam’s recent novel, Fowl Play, brings these two together. The first in a series, it is a cozy mystery that…
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The Murders in Great Diddling: Katarina Bivald Revises and Parodies the Cozy
The Edgar nominations were announced last month, and Katarina Bivald’s The Murders in Great Diddling is up for the Lilian Jackson Braun Award for best new cozy mystery. In the cozy, as the name suggests, the violence is off-stage and not off-putting. The victim may be widely disliked as in Bivald’s book, or the crime…
