The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: fiction

  • Shari Lapena’s Getting Away with Murder

    Shari Lapena’s tenth domestic thriller is due out in late July. My thanks to NetGalley and the book’s publisher for the ARC. A decade ago, Lapena published her first crime novel after having written two previous literary novels, Things Go Flying and Happiness Economics. The Couple Next Door was a massive success, and it’s a…

  • The Writing (and Reading) Life

    Photo of the University of King’s College Arts and Administrative Building by Robert Alfers, used with permission under CC license. I’ve recently returned from an intense (exhausting, exhilarating) 10-day MFA residency in Creative Nonfiction. I spent my evenings and our one day off keeping up with my online students, who quite reasonably still needed timely…

  • Jane Doucet’s Blood Typed: A New Halifax Cozy Series

    Jane Doucet’s Blood Typed, the author’s fourth novel but first mystery, appeared in print last month. This is a fun addition to Canadian crime fiction, with a focus on Halifax and, more generally, Nova Scotia settings, including the South Shore and scenic Mahone Bay as well as Wolfville, the home of Acadia University. And oddly,…