The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: book-review

  • “I’m no Captain Wentworth”: P.D. James’s Dalgliesh in Love

    The Murder Room is one of my favourite P.D. James mysteries, although many other readers are less rapturous. Kirkus Reviews complained about “a plot less ineluctable than her best” but praises the intriguing cast of characters and–as always in James–the extraordinary sense of place. The novel is set largely at the Dupayne Museum, which explores…

  • Feminist Revenge Fantasies, Coercive Control, and Intimate Partner Violence

    And today, because I’m grappling with this in two other forms of writing, a brief foray into intimate partner violence and proposed Canadian legislation about coercive control. My former Member of Parliament, Laurel Collins, twice brought forward legislation in the House of Commons to address a gap in the law related to “a pattern of…

  • Amy Stuart Writes Terrific Domestic Thrillers

    I don’t read a lot of domestic thrillers, and I recently excised the genre from my book project because the ones by Canadian authors, both male and female–Linwood Barclay and Shari Lapena may be our best-known international exports in this sub-genre–are almost never set in identifiable Canadian locales. And the whole point of my project…