The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: fiction

  • Alafair Burke: A Crime (Writing) Family

    I’m nearly finished Alafair Burke’s new novel, The Note, which starts a bit slowly but then picks up, in a big way. And since I’ve never written on here about how much I enjoy both Burke’s fiction and (in a more moderate way) the prolific literary output of her father, James Lee Burke, this seems…

  • Sick Day Book Recommendations: Forthcoming for Spring 2026

    Michael Ancher, The Sick Girl, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark; used under a CC license, with thanks. Content warning: child loss; trauma; grief. I’m at a mountain lodge (drawing on a loose definition of mountain), about an hour from home. Since I’ve come down with a bad cold, I’m here for an extra day…

  • Colin Dexter’s Oxford and Nora Kelly’s Cambridge (by Way of Cryptic Crosswords)

    I’ve just ordered a niche item, Colin Dexter’s Cracking Cryptic Crosswords. The late detective novelist, who spent his early career teaching Classics, was also a famed creator of crossword puzzles of a type that British audiences appreciate far more than American ones. A recent New Yorker piece describes how Wordle creator Josh Wardle has created…