Tag: book-reviews
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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…
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Worst New Year’s Eve Party Ever: Louise Penny’s The Madness of Crowds
I have never liked New Year’s Eve parties, but 29 years ago I went to a friend’s party, under protest–literally dropped off at the door by another friend, with whom I’d had dinner, and ordered to stay for at least half an hour. And I met somebody quite lovely, and talked about Jane Austen for…
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Jean Paetkau’s Victoria-Set Breakwater Series
My Christmas holiday reading has been the second book in local indie writer Jean Paetkau’s Breakwater series, which opened with Blood on the Breakwater last year. In Victoria it was a bestseller, and the author did a tremendous job promoting her self-published work. That must be one of the most onerous tasks for a writer…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 