The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: books

  • Christmas Mysteries: New and Old

    I have a fondness for publishers’ efforts to package a motley collection of mostly non-holiday themed stories under a a Christmas-y title, with perhaps 1-2 actual Yuletide tales. It’s a good way to put together what is effectively a miscellany of shorter works by authors who usually write novels. Since short stories can be ephemeral,…

  • Library “Privileges” and Alice Munro

    I awoke with a keen sense of excitement and anxiety this morning, the first day of the year. Per Louise Penny’s novels, I quickly murmured “rabbit, rabbit, rabbit” before getting out of bed to feed our rabbit-like cat, who was already making soft cooing noises. She appreciates my early wake-ups. The question on my mind…

  • Pamela Bedore’s Routledge Introduction to Canadian Crime Fiction

    I’ve been drafting a sometimes sprawling book project, adding and subtracting chapters too frequently. It’s been such a big help to have a model and guide for my work, in the form of Pamela Bedore’s 2024 book on Canadian crime writing. In a crucial way, I’m writing in dialogue with Bedore–and with a few other…