The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: crime-fiction

  • International Women’s Day 2026: My Current Top 20 Canadian Women Crime Writers

    Most of my reading this week is about Medusa, for a project. Gratuitous photo, because she is everywhere: My list of 20 current favourite Canadian women crime writers, in no particular order, and their sub-genre/s: Amy Stuart: domestic suspense fiction set in urban and suburban areas, with a strong sense of woman-in-peril Louise Penny: what…

  • Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead Included on Time’s Top 100 Mystery and Thrillers List

    In their recent issue, also available online, Time Magazine offers top-100 list, put together by some of the biggest names in contemporary crime fiction, alongside several intriguing mystery-themed articles, including Rachel Howzell Hall’s “The Rich, Underappreciated History of Mystery Writers of Color.“ This Time feature issue was brought to my attention by no less than…

  • The New Louise Penny Novel . . . and the Other New Louise Penny Novel

    I’m reading The Last Mandarin (with thanks to NetGalley and the novel’s publisher), a collaboration by two terrific authors: Louise Penny, of course, and Mellissa Fung, a Canadian journalist and former foreign correspondent, and the author of the gripping memoir Under an Afghan Sky. Fung’s first book describes how, in 2008, she was kidnapped in…