The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: fiction

  • 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,…

  • Canada Reads and Thrillers: Not a Good Fit?

    The sample size is two, so this is a limited basis on which to draw a conclusion, but it’s interesting: last year Samantha M. Bailey’s domestic suspense thriller was the first book eliminated from the Canada Reads competition, and this year it’s Iain Reid’s Foe. I haven’t read Foe, which is a thriller written in…

  • Bringing True Crime to the Stage: Marquita Lynn Walsh’s She Is Here

    Publicity poster for She Is Here by Marquita Lynn Walsh. Livestream tickets available for the April 25 performance. During the first two years of COVID, theatre companies across Canada provided innovative live-streamed productions, and it was a joy to be be able to watch a range of works from the comfort of home. Once the…