The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Gail Bowen

  • Gail Bowen’s The Solitary Friend

    In The Solitary Friend (ECW Press), Gail Bowen revisits themes and characters that have peppered her mystery series over more than three decades.

  • “Let Me Entertain You”: Mystery Novels About Acting

    Starting with Sondheim, this morning. Others may wake, stretch, and repeat soothing words of affirmation. I wake, shake off the frissons of anxiety about workplace dreams (only recently) and then decide on a Sondheim lyric to get me through the day. I’ve been steeped in Stephen Sondheim’s work since I was about 12 and found…

  • Murderous English Departments

    I’m stealing someone else’s observation today. Pretty sure this is from Gail Bowen’s Sleuth, her guide to writing mysteries, but I can’t check right this moment: No one who teaches in an English department has ever considered murdering a colleague in order to ascend to the august office of English Department Chair. It must be…