The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: book-reviews

  • Bringing True Crime to the Stage: Marquita Lynn Walsh’s She Is Here

    Publicity poster for She Is Here by Marquita Lynn Walsh. Livestream tickets available for the April 25 performance. During the first two years of COVID, theatre companies across Canada provided innovative live-streamed productions, and it was a joy to be be able to watch a range of works from the comfort of home. Once the…

  • Mountain Thrillers and “Alpine Divorces”

    Cover image of Elinor M. Brent-Dyer’s The Mystery at the Chalet School, 1947. I’m working on a piece about crime fiction set in Canadian mountainous regions (mostly the Rockies), and that has me dipping into Alpine crime fiction from other nations, for comparison. But let’s start with the new-to-me phrase “alpine divorce.” This is not…

  • Marsha Mildon’s Cal Meredith Books

    A puzzle: during the 1990s, two terrific authors of lesbian private investigator series emerged from the bucolic but small city of Victoria, British Columbia. Both had American publishers, and I’ve described previously how Lauren Wright Douglas was part of the sprawling genre fiction output of Naiad Press, based in Florida. Marsha Mildon‘s two books in…