Tag: history
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Violent Colonial Histories and the Limits of Reconciliation: Katherine Govier’s Between Men
Katherine Govier’s Between Men Canadian literature has a fair number of internationally-acclaimed women writers, including in crime fiction. I’m puzzled that Katherine Govier’s work is not more famous, and I think she should be counted in the company of Atwood, Laurence, Gallant, and Munro, although she’s about a decade younger than Atwood. While her first…
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Happy St. David’s Day!
I must spend it packing; for those of you with reading time, I highly recommend Ann Cleeves’s Murder in My Backyard, which is part of her terrific Inspector Ramsay series. From her website: “No one in Heppleburn has a bad word to say about Alice Parry… but here she is, murdered in her own backyard…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 