Tag: book-reviews
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Investigating Frances Shelley Wees
Frances Shelley Wees (1902-82), a now largely neglected crime writer, was so popular during the 1950s and 60s that she was known as “the Agatha Christie of Canada.” And thanks to Véhicule Press’s Ricochet Books, two of her mystery-suspense novels have been re-issued over the last decade. An American-born author of educational works and children’s…
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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…
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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…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 