The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: books

  • The Writing (and Reading) Life

    Photo of the University of King’s College Arts and Administrative Building by Robert Alfers, used with permission under CC license. I’ve recently returned from an intense (exhausting, exhilarating) 10-day MFA residency in Creative Nonfiction. I spent my evenings and our one day off keeping up with my online students, who quite reasonably still needed timely…

  • Agatha Christie’s Third Girl

    Agatha Christie was in her mid-seventies when she published Third Girl, an Hercule Poirot/Ariadne Oliver murder mystery (of sorts) set in London during the Swinging Sixties. The beatniks and starving artists in velvet pants are singled out for their peculiarities, and there’s a lot of tsk-tsk youth today chatter. But this book really has everything:…

  • Jane Doucet’s Blood Typed: A New Halifax Cozy Series

    Jane Doucet’s Blood Typed, the author’s fourth novel but first mystery, appeared in print last month. This is a fun addition to Canadian crime fiction, with a focus on Halifax and, more generally, Nova Scotia settings, including the South Shore and scenic Mahone Bay as well as Wolfville, the home of Acadia University. And oddly,…