Tag: book-reviews
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Southern-Fried Crime Fiction: Margaret Maron’s Deborah Knott Novels
I won’t start eating biscuits and gravy or grits for breakfast every day, but this was a nice change on a very rainy late-March morning. One of my mother’s favourite songs to sing us was “Mama’s little baby loves shortnin’, shortnin’”, a ditty which I’ve only recently realized was deeply problematic. The version I learned…
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Jean Paetkau’s Victoria-Set Breakwater Series
My Christmas holiday reading has been the second book in local indie writer Jean Paetkau’s Breakwater series, which opened with Blood on the Breakwater last year. In Victoria it was a bestseller, and the author did a tremendous job promoting her self-published work. That must be one of the most onerous tasks for a writer…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 