The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • The Idea of a Female Literary Tradition: Unfashionable in 2025?

    The premise of my book project is that there is something distinctive about the way that Canadian women writers craft crime fiction, even though they do so in contrasting genres of the cozy (domestic setting; food and friends; no gore), the thriller (domestic or public setting; more enemies than friends; potential gore), and the police…

  • My 2024 Top Canadian Mystery Reads and 2025 TBR Pile

    A range of new and older works, given the scope of this project. This blog post will be a work in progress, so this is a start, and a placeholder. I read dozens of mysteries last year. And many of them were purchased with a grant from Sisters in Crime back in 2023–thank you, thank…

  • Christmas Mysteries: New and Old

    I have a fondness for publishers’ efforts to package a motley collection of mostly non-holiday themed stories under a a Christmas-y title, with perhaps 1-2 actual Yuletide tales. It’s a good way to put together what is effectively a miscellany of shorter works by authors who usually write novels. Since short stories can be ephemeral,…