Tag: books
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Celebrating the Work of Gail Bowen (1942-2026)
In March, Canadian crime writer Gail Bowen included in her Newsletter a brief excerpt from her forthcoming–and final–novel in the Joanne Kilbourn Shreve series. It’s entitled Homecoming. Last night Bowen’s many fans across Canada and around the world learned the sad news that she has passed away. Bowen published her first novel featuring Regina, Saskatchewan…
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The Dying Light: Forthcoming Ann Cleeves
With thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan for this preview. The Dying Light, the new Matthew Venn mystery, will be out in early October in Canada and the U.S. A couple of weeks ago Ann Cleeves, Shetland Noir’s patron, appeared at a fun crime fiction festival that’s on my bucket list. Cleeves was discussing her two…
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Marsha Mildon’s Stalking the Goddess Ship
Marsha Mildon’s second Cal Meredith novel, set on the west coast of Vancouver Island and in Victoria where the fictional P.I. lives and works, is a thoughtfully plotted lesbian crime novel with an exceptional sense of place. Marguerite is an embattled feminist archaeologist in UVic’s fraught (and fictional) department of ancient cultures. Her theories about…
