Tag: crime-fiction
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Ausma Zehanat Khan’s Getty-Khattak Series and A Deadly Divide
Ausma Zehanat Khan is the dizzyingly accomplished author of five novels and a short story featuring the unlikely pairing (in a genuinely innovative take on the trope) of Muslim Canadian senior investigator Esa Khattak and the perceptive and dogged but insecure Rachel Getty. They work together on a unique initiative, a Toronto-based community policing team…
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Gail Bowen’s The Solitary Friend
In The Solitary Friend (ECW Press), Gail Bowen revisits themes and characters that have peppered her mystery series over more than three decades.
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Iceland and International Women’s Day 2025
In the new documentary The Day Iceland Stood Still, director Pamela Hogan revisits October 24, 1975, when 90% of Iceland’s women walked off the job–at work and at home. For one day, they insisted, men could pay attention to how much they did, and how little their contributions were appreciated and rewarded. On International Women’s…
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Crime Fiction Festivals: A Few Thoughts
A brief post, today, because deadlines are looming for three writing projects and two reviewing tasks. But I’m also planning a trip, and working out how to be in Stirling for Bloody Scotland in the middle of September. As with most large events held in small-ish cities, finding accommodation is the tricky part, so I’m…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 