The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: book-reviews

  • Pat Capponi’s Socially-Conscious Crime Fiction

    Yesterday I walked downtown fairly early in the morning, just after seven. There was a glorious sunrise. Shades of purple and pink, a veritable Homeric rosy-fingered dawn. And then, along Pandora Street, where I’d intended to pick up a greasy breakfast sandwich as my reward for an early morning irksome errand, I was daunted by…

  • 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…

  • 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…