The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Agatha Christie All Year Long

    This year marks a half-century since the world lost Agatha Christie, so there are extensive commemorations and several new book publications. Perhaps the most anticipated is Lucy Foley’s reboot of the Miss Marple series with September’s publication of Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel. There’s also a new Poirot limited series for television in the…

  • Nicole Lundrigan’s The Case Study

    Canadian author Nicole Lundrigan has written several well-received psychological suspense thrillers. The Case Study juxtaposes the lives of two women who seem to have nothing in common, depicting one of them through a first-person narrative and the other through third-person narration, which works well. Mia is the wife of a well-regarded therapist and college professor.…

  • Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

    Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five shifts the focus from the shadowy figure of the 1888 Whitechapel serial killer who came to be known as Jack the Ripper to the women he murdered. The Five is a deeply researched social history. Rubenhold isn’t interested in trying to identify the killer or in delving into the gruesome details…