The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: fiction

  • Louise Penny’s The Cruellest Month: Literary Allusions, Easter, and the Near Enemy

    This will be a busy week of endings and beginnings and April Fool’s Day mischief. My writing energies are temporarily diverted elsewhere, so I’m re-posting last year’s Holy Week musings, with a quick diversion into True Crime to mark Palm Sunday today. Scroll down to skip a grim and very real story. Palm Sunday and…

  • 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…