The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: book-reviews

  • Children’s Crime Fiction: The Chalet School and the Right’s Embrace of The Hardy Boys, Racism and All

    I’ve had a busy week of drafting applications, and one of these (completed! submitted!) required multiple short essays documenting my interest in mountain literature. I resisted citing the Chalet School novels as my earliest immersion in serial fiction in a mountain setting, but it’s hard for me to think about alpine lit without a wistful…

  • Mountain Crime Fiction and Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s The Retreat

    The premise of my book project is that place is central to storytelling in Canadian crime fiction. The novels I analyze are set in locations as diverse as tiny fishing villages in Newfoundland, the Foothills of the Rockies, and Vancouver’s bucolic UBC campus (very thinly disguised). In each work, the physical locale, including climate, landscape,…

  • Canada Reads and Thrillers: Not a Good Fit?

    The sample size is two, so this is a limited basis on which to draw a conclusion, but it’s interesting: last year Samantha M. Bailey’s domestic suspense thriller was the first book eliminated from the Canada Reads competition, and this year it’s Iain Reid’s Foe. I haven’t read Foe, which is a thriller written in…