The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: book-reviews

  • Val McDermid’s Silent Bones (Karen Pirie #8)

    Scottish crime writer Val McDermid is prolific as well as extraordinarily accomplished: she writes some of the best crime fiction currently in print, and she continues to challenge herself with more complex plots and characterizations. Karen Pirie, the Historical Cases investigator who is the protagonist of this series, is a good example. McDermid has portrayed…

  • Mothers in Canadian Crime Fiction

    A quick Mother’s Day post, before I return to editing. L.R. Wright’s Mother Love Mothers appear in many of Wright’s psychological suspense novels, which are also police procedurals that use two RCMP protagonists: middle-aged-and-aging Karl Alberg, in a multiple-book series set in Sechelt, and the younger Edwina “Eddie” Henderson, who is featured in just two…

  • Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House

    I’m musing about whether this memoir–an experimental, genre-blurring, fantastical, brilliantly written account of emotional abuse in a lesbian relationship–could be placed in the True Crime section of a bookstore. As I start an MFA in Creative Nonfiction, my reading is shifting to be roughly half and half CNF and crime fiction, and that can make…