The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Widows and Orphans by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti

    The former Globe & Mail journalist and her writing partner, a psychotherapist, teamed up last year for their first novel. Set at a failing newspaper in a small Ontario town, Bury the Lead was quite fun. The town’s theatre festival is in shambles after their problematic leading man collapses on stage. Amateur sleuth Cat Conway…

  • 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…

  • 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…