The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: history

  • Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

    Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five shifts the focus from the shadowy figure of the 1888 Whitechapel serial killer who came to be known as Jack the Ripper to the women he murdered. The Five is a deeply researched social history. Rubenhold isn’t interested in trying to identify the killer or in delving into the gruesome details…

  • 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…