The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: canadian-writers

  • Amy Stuart Writes Terrific Domestic Thrillers

    I don’t read a lot of domestic thrillers, and I recently excised the genre from my book project because the ones by Canadian authors, both male and female–Linwood Barclay and Shari Lapena may be our best-known international exports in this sub-genre–are almost never set in identifiable Canadian locales. And the whole point of my project…

  • Investigating Frances Shelley Wees

    Frances Shelley Wees (1902-82), a now largely neglected crime writer, was so popular during the 1950s and 60s that she was known as “the Agatha Christie of Canada.” And thanks to Véhicule Press’s Ricochet Books, two of her mystery-suspense novels have been re-issued over the last decade. An American-born author of educational works and children’s…