The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Island Crime Fiction: From Scotland to Scylly

    I typically discover new (to me) crime writers in a range of ways: through newspaper and online reviews; from friends who foist favourites on me; and as fortuitous discoveries in Free Little Libraries. But this is my first time finding a terrifically interesting crime writer by happenstance, while arranging to rent her home during my…

  • Jessica Knoll’s Helpless

    According to her new book’s publicity, Jessica Knoll’s Helpless, due out in July, is a “smoldering erotic thriller with a singular, mind-bending ending.” Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance look. This is the third Jessica Knoll novel that I’ve attempted to read; I’m going to try the The Luckiest Girl Alive…

  • The Helplessness of Grief and the Trauma of Academia: Maria Adelmann’s The Adjunct

    As I was reading Adelmann’s campus novel, I was thinking about one of the most brilliant and personable labour organizers I’ve ever met, the late Miranda Merklein. I miss her. Like this novel’s protagonist, Merklein had realistic expectations of a middle-class life as a college teacher: not a cossetted existence, but decent health insurance and…