The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Denise Mina

  • Friday Round-Up

    By the end of the week, I’ve often accumulated odds and bobs that are too brief for a full post, or not quite relevant to crime and fiction and Canada. Since I’m woolly-headed with a cold, here are some things I’m reading, writing, and thinking about as February comes to a close, in descending order…

  • 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…

  • Denise Mina and Scottish Crime Fiction

    My thoughts have turned to Bloody Scotland, because I’ve persuaded my child that their graduation trip this fall should include a crime fiction festival, even though it is not their preferred genre. We’ll spend time in Edinburgh, which we visited nearly a decade ago, before going on to Stirling. But I’m pondering whether we need…