The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: crime-fiction

  • Alexis Koetting’s Triple Threat

    Alexis Koetting has an impressive theatre and TV/film c.v., and her three Bella James mystery novels, featuring an amateur sleuth who is an actor at Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Shaw Festival, provide a fun insider glimpse into the world of acting. Triple Threat is Koetting’s second novel, following Encore (and preceding Revival). Bella is juggling multiple demands on…

  • Janice Hallett’s The Silent Appeal

    With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. Janice Hallett’s The Silent Appeal is due out in late August in Canada and the U.S., and in early September in the UK (which is, itself, a bit of a mystery for a new British crime novel: it’s more common for the North American publication…

  • Don Gillmor’s Cherry Beach

    The Literary Review of Canada doesn’t cover all that many crime novels, but Cherry Beach, a 2026 book published by Biblioasis and written by a veteran Canadian journalist and novelist, deserves to be treated as an exception. This is a taut, atmospheric book, and it’s an indictment of class interests and racism. Kevin Jagernauth’s perceptive…