The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Gail Bowen

  • Celebrating the Work of Gail Bowen (1942-2026)

    In March, Canadian crime writer Gail Bowen included in her Newsletter a brief excerpt from her forthcoming–and final–novel in the Joanne Kilbourn Shreve series. It’s entitled Homecoming. Last night Bowen’s many fans across Canada and around the world learned the sad news that she has passed away. Bowen published her first novel featuring Regina, Saskatchewan…

  • Mothers in Canadian Crime Fiction

    A quick Mother’s Day post, before I return to editing. L.R. Wright’s Mother Love Mothers appear in many of Wright’s psychological suspense novels, which are also police procedurals that use two RCMP protagonists: middle-aged-and-aging Karl Alberg, in a multiple-book series set in Sechelt, and the younger Edwina “Eddie” Henderson, who is featured in just two…

  • 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.