The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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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…

  • Having a Heatwave: Summer Crime Fiction

    It’s too darn hot, as per Cole Porter. The west coast is sweltering, and by 7AM this morning it was already 18 degrees, on its rapid way to 31, the air still and humid. The cat’s thrilled, stalking the scorched front yard grass (under close supervision) as she warms her aged bones; her human companions…

  • Murder at University Park by Cheryl Miller Dellasega

    Murder at University Park is the first mystery novel by American writer (and emerita professor at the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine) Cheryl Miller Dellasega. Due out in August, it’s an engaging look at killer campus politics that bogs down occasionally under the weight of the narrator’s domestic and professional ordeals. Many thanks to…