The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: crime-fiction

  • Val McDermid’s Silent Bones (Karen Pirie #8)

    Scottish crime writer Val McDermid is prolific as well as extraordinarily accomplished: she writes some of the best crime fiction currently in print, and she continues to challenge herself with more complex plots and characterizations. Karen Pirie, the Historical Cases investigator who is the protagonist of this series, is a good example. McDermid has portrayed…

  • P.D. James and Louise Penny

    “Perhaps Adam Dalgliesh is an idealized version of what I’d have liked to be if I’d been born a man.” P.D. James, quoted in an interview by Julian Symons, NY Times, 5 October 1986. “Almost always the idea for a book comes to me as a reaction to a particular place and setting. Sometimes it’s…

  • Iceland Noir: Margrét Ann Thors’s First Novel

    I love this book. I’ve had a lucky streak of wonderful books: fiction and nonfiction, crime and suspense but also domestic/romantic “women’s fiction,” like Kerry Clare’s new novel, Definitely Thriving. Clare has a lot of fun with the idea of a segregated women’s literature: her protagonist, Clemence, fresh out of a marriage that she blew…