The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: fiction

  • Mountain Thrillers and “Alpine Divorces”

    Cover image of Elinor M. Brent-Dyer’s The Mystery at the Chalet School, 1947. I’m working on a piece about crime fiction set in Canadian mountainous regions (mostly the Rockies), and that has me dipping into Alpine crime fiction from other nations, for comparison. But let’s start with the new-to-me phrase “alpine divorce.” This is not…

  • Marsha Mildon’s Cal Meredith Books

    A puzzle: during the 1990s, two terrific authors of lesbian private investigator series emerged from the bucolic but small city of Victoria, British Columbia. Both had American publishers, and I’ve described previously how Lauren Wright Douglas was part of the sprawling genre fiction output of Naiad Press, based in Florida. Marsha Mildon‘s two books in…

  • Visions and Revisions, Or How to Lose 26K Words in Two Weeks While Dreaming of Icebergs

    Photo credit: Dylan Kereluk from White Rock, Canada; used under a CC license. Description: Newfoundland coast and iceberg. I have a word length problem. By May 1, I need to chop a minimum of 26, 232 words from the second draft of my first mystery novel. On that May Day, a very good developmental editor…