The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: book-reviews

  • Canada Reads 2026 Long-Listed Books

    Hot off the presses! The list for 2026 has just been announced; it will then be narrowed down to five books, each championed by a Canadian celebrity. (To quote one of my former Canadian Studies students: “How can they be celebrities if I’ve never heard of any of them?” But we have a small population…

  • New Year’s Eve: Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Nine Tailors and the Pealing of the Church Bells

    “From time to time complaints are made about the ringing of church bells. It seems strange that a generation which tolerates the uproar of the internal combustion engine and the wailing of the jazz band should be so sensitive to the one loud noise that is made to the glory of God.” In her Foreword…

  • Pat Capponi’s Socially-Conscious Crime Fiction

    Yesterday I walked downtown fairly early in the morning, just after seven. There was a glorious sunrise. Shades of purple and pink, a veritable Homeric rosy-fingered dawn. And then, along Pandora Street, where I’d intended to pick up a greasy breakfast sandwich as my reward for an early morning irksome errand, I was daunted by…