The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: elisabeth-de-mariaffi

  • Mountain Crime Fiction and Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s The Retreat

    The premise of my book project is that place is central to storytelling in Canadian crime fiction. The novels I analyze are set in locations as diverse as tiny fishing villages in Newfoundland, the Foothills of the Rockies, and Vancouver’s bucolic UBC campus (very thinly disguised). In each work, the physical locale, including climate, landscape,…

  • Mountain Thrillers and “Alpine Divorces”

    Cover image of Elinor M. Brent-Dyer’s The Mystery at the Chalet School, 1947. I’m working on a piece about crime fiction set in Canadian mountainous regions (mostly the Rockies), and that has me dipping into Alpine crime fiction from other nations, for comparison. But let’s start with the new-to-me phrase “alpine divorce.” This is not…

  • 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…