Tag: fiction
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P.D. James’s A Certain Justice and Gail Bowen’s Verdict in Blood
P.D. James’s A Certain Justice, her tenth novel, appeared in 1997; Canadian writer Gail Bowen’s sixth novel, Verdict in Blood, came out in 1998. They’re among the best novels by each author, and both deal with women and the practice of law in exceptionally thoughtful ways. Venetia Aldridge, the barrister and murder victim in A…
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Nicole Lundrigan’s The Case Study
Canadian author Nicole Lundrigan has written several well-received psychological suspense thrillers. The Case Study juxtaposes the lives of two women who seem to have nothing in common, depicting one of them through a first-person narrative and the other through third-person narration, which works well. Mia is the wife of a well-regarded therapist and college professor.…
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Janice Hallett’s The Silent Appeal
With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. Janice Hallett’s The Silent Appeal is due out in late August in Canada and the U.S., and in early September in the UK (which is, itself, a bit of a mystery for a new British crime novel: it’s more common for the North American publication…
