The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Bringing True Crime to the Stage: Marquita Lynn Walsh’s She Is Here

    Publicity poster for She Is Here by Marquita Lynn Walsh. Livestream tickets available for the April 25 performance. During the first two years of COVID, theatre companies across Canada provided innovative live-streamed productions, and it was a joy to be be able to watch a range of works from the comfort of home. Once the…

  • Mountain Thrillers and “Alpine Divorces”

    Cover image of Elinor M. Brent-Dyer’s The Mystery at the Chalet School, 1947. I’m working on a piece about crime fiction set in Canadian mountainous regions (mostly the Rockies), and that has me dipping into Alpine crime fiction from other nations, for comparison. But let’s start with the new-to-me phrase “alpine divorce.” This is not…

  • National Canadian Film Day: Coming up on April 15

    Georgina Reilly in Pontypool. Photograph: c.IFC Films/Everett /Rex Features I love that the Wikipedia page for Canadian horror novelist Tony Burgess includes a disambiguation note: “Not to be confused with Anthony Burgess,” of Clockwork Orange fame. When I was in undergrad, I took two or three courses with a brilliant older student who would occasionally…