The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Uzma Jalaluddin’s Detective Aunty

    Here’s something new and different, and very welcome: a murder mystery (cozy-ish) set in a multicultural Scarborough neighbourhood with a widowed Indo-Canadian woman in her late 50s as the plucky heroine. Uzma Jalaluddin is a Canadian author and journalist who has written acclaimed fiction and one play; this is her first murder mystery. Kausar Khan’s…

  • 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…