The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: history

  • TV’s Hudson & Rex: A Fan Campaign Brings Back the Leading Man

    Hudson & Rex is a fun Canadian television oddity: a crime-by-the-week series unabashedly set in St. John’s, Newfoundland that features the city’s landmarks and an array of gorgeous provincial settings as key elements. Mary Walsh has a recurring role as a former police archivist who ends up in prison, and then briefly manages a prison…

  • 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…

  • 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…