The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: books

  • Rachel Monroe’s Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

    I came across Monroe’s book while seeking comps (comparable titles) for my own work-in-progress, which is a bibliomemoir: a life story told through reading and, in my case, crime fiction. It’s an expanding genre, and I highly recommend Guardian culture writer Lucy Mangan’s excellent Bookworm and Bookish. Other examples include Austen Years: A Memoir in…

  • 4th of July: Murder Ballads and Gretchen Peters’s “Independence Day”

    Katy Horan’s gorgeously illustrated and chilling little book compiles twenty traditional murder ballads, some of them well known and others less familiar (at least to me), with insightful analysis of the genre. She Wore Black, a fun podcast about things gothic, horror, and mystery, has an interview with her that’s worth a listen. Horan talks…

  • Back in Print: Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon

    My Canada Day treat is this delight: the first volume in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series, her first set of novels. Report for Murder, first published in 1987, was McDermid’s début; she was a newspaper journalist when she created the UK’s first lesbian detective, an amateur investigator who is also a reporter when the series…