The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • An Easter Post: Women in Prison, Agatha Christie’s Sad Cypress, and Dorothy L. Sayers’s Strong Poison

    I was halfway through Sad Cypress before I realized that the young doctor who had sought Hercule Poirot’s assistance was named Peter Lord. Lord Peter. A nice tribute to Dorothy L. Sayers in a book that follows the broad outlines of her earlier novel, Strong Poison. Sad Cypress was published a decade after Sayers’s book,…

  • Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!

    Photo credit: Paige K Parsons for Rabbit.org Foundation Welcome to April! Easter is coming, and the etched coloured glass eggs I ordered as my treat arrived yesterday; now I’m trying to figure out how to construct an indoor Easter bush that does not entice the cat into potential disaster. First, though, we have to get…

  • Louise Penny’s The Cruellest Month: Literary Allusions, Easter, and the Near Enemy

    This will be a busy week of endings and beginnings and April Fool’s Day mischief. My writing energies are temporarily diverted elsewhere, so I’m re-posting last year’s Holy Week musings, with a quick diversion into True Crime to mark Palm Sunday today. Scroll down to skip a grim and very real story. Palm Sunday and…