The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: crime-fiction

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.