The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: family

  • Mothers in Canadian Crime Fiction

    A quick Mother’s Day post, before I return to editing. L.R. Wright’s Mother Love Mothers appear in many of Wright’s psychological suspense novels, which are also police procedurals that use two RCMP protagonists: middle-aged-and-aging Karl Alberg, in a multiple-book series set in Sechelt, and the younger Edwina “Eddie” Henderson, who is featured in just two…

  • My Mother in the Kitchen: Unearthing Family Stories

    I come from a long line of women who enjoy feeding people. My late mother, whose birthday is today, was an excellent cook and hostess. She turned out creamy seafood lasagne for twenty without a hint of anxiety that the shrimp might be overcooked or the cream sauce curdled from sitting too long on top…

  • Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!

    Photo credit: Paige K Parsons for Rabbit.org Foundation Welcome to April! Easter is coming, and the etched coloured glass eggs I ordered as my treat arrived yesterday; now I’m trying to figure out how to construct an indoor Easter bush that does not entice the cat into potential disaster. First, though, we have to get…