Tag: elisabeth-de-mariaffi
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Scarpetta and Bones: Adapting Novels about Forensic Science and Reflecting on True Crime
Photo credit: Prime Video My tolerance for gore is low; psychological horror is fine, but nothing involving detached body parts, thanks. Yet I’ve read a number of Patricia Cornwell’s novels and all of Kathy Reichs’s fiction; I’m currently reading the latest, and I’m drafting a chapter on her Montreal-North Carolina-set crime stories. Last September, I…
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Ann Cleeves: An Appreciation
I’m interrupting my set of four posts on academic mysteries to reflect on how brilliant Ann Cleeves’s Vera novels are, in particular. No shade to her other series, which are engaging and innovative as well. This past fall I was due to go to Knowlton, Quebec to see Louise Penny interview Cleeves, at a public…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 