Tag: cozy-mystery
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The Murders in Great Diddling: Katarina Bivald Revises and Parodies the Cozy
The Edgar nominations were announced last month, and Katarina Bivald’s The Murders in Great Diddling is up for the Lilian Jackson Braun Award for best new cozy mystery. In the cozy, as the name suggests, the violence is off-stage and not off-putting. The victim may be widely disliked as in Bivald’s book, or the crime…
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Food, Feminism, and Mystery Fiction
Beth Kalikoff, writing in 2006, called attention to the plethora of mystery novels, most of which were enduring series, that incorporated food directly into the murder plot and not always because the victim was poisoned. As she described, while noting that only limited critical attention had been paid to date to the phenomenon, mystery novels…
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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…
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Worst New Year’s Eve Party Ever: Louise Penny’s The Madness of Crowds
I have never liked New Year’s Eve parties, but 29 years ago I went to a friend’s party, under protest–literally dropped off at the door by another friend, with whom I’d had dinner, and ordered to stay for at least half an hour. And I met somebody quite lovely, and talked about Jane Austen for…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 