The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: book-reviews

  • Happy St. David’s Day!

    I must spend it packing; for those of you with reading time, I highly recommend Ann Cleeves’s Murder in My Backyard, which is part of her terrific Inspector Ramsay series. From her website: “No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry… but here she is, murdered in her own backyard…

  • 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…