The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Murder at University Park by Cheryl Miller Dellasega

    Murder at University Park is the first mystery novel by American writer (and emerita professor at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine) Cheryl Miller Dellasega. Due out in August, it’s an engaging look at killer campus politics that bogs down occasionally under the weight of the narrator’s domestic and professional ordeals. Many thanks to…

  • Shari Lapena’s Getting Away with Murder

    Shari Lapena’s tenth domestic thriller is due out in late July. My thanks to NetGalley and the book’s publisher for the ARC. A decade ago, Lapena published her first crime novel after having written two previous literary novels, Things Go Flying and Happiness Economics. The Couple Next Door was a massive success, and it’s a…

  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Turns 100: Suspense and Spoilers

    Agatha Christie published her daring and innovative crime novel in June of 1926. This month there are festivities galore to celebrate the centenary. It’s not like the novel hasn’t already been fêted extensively: in 2013, the British Crime Writers’ Association declared Christie the best crime novelist of all time, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd…