The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: L.R. Wright

  • Vancouver Crime Fiction’s Sense of Place and a May 21 Event

    Several years ago, as I was starting a Creative Writing program at U of T, I took a crime fiction course with Vancouver writer Sam Wiebe; I’d taken a previous course on mystery writing with Gail Bowen. The two courses were completely different in delivery mode and approach, but both were terrific–and transformative. They made…

  • 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…

  • Adapting Canadian Crime Fiction: L.R. Wright’s Murder in a Small Town, and Adaptations of Louise Penny’s Gamache/Three Pines Books

    A second season of Fox’s Murder in a Small Town has started shooting on the Sunshine Coast, and locals are happy. The production has injected $4 million into the area’s economy, and while the series leads are not all from B.C., they are Canadian. RCMP Staff Sergeant Karl Alberg is played by Rossif Sutherland, previously…