Tag: Gail Bowen
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P.D. James’s A Certain Justice and Gail Bowen’s Verdict in Blood
P.D. James’s A Certain Justice, her tenth novel, appeared in 1997; Canadian writer Gail Bowen’s sixth novel, Verdict in Blood, came out in 1998. They’re among the best novels by each author, and both deal with women and the practice of law in exceptionally thoughtful ways. Venetia Aldridge, the barrister and murder victim in A…
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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…
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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…
