The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Louise Penny

  • P.D. James and Louise Penny

    “Perhaps Adam Dalgliesh is an idealized version of what I’d have liked to be if I’d been born a man.” P.D. James, quoted in an interview by Julian Symons, NY Times, 5 October 1986. “Almost always the idea for a book comes to me as a reaction to a particular place and setting. Sometimes it’s…

  • Joy, Oh Joy

    Between braising brisket and planning decorative Easter bushes under which the baskets of chocolate eggs can sit, I’ve been thinking about joy. This is prompted, in part, by re-reading Louise Penny’s April-themed The Cruellest Month and The Long Way Home while watching David Mitchell and the wonderful Anna Maxwell Martin in Season 1 of Ludwig.…

  • Louise Penny’s The Cruellest Month: Literary Allusions, Easter, and the Near Enemy

    This will be a busy week of endings and beginnings and April Fool’s Day mischief. My writing energies are temporarily diverted elsewhere, so I’m re-posting last year’s Holy Week musings, with a quick diversion into True Crime to mark Palm Sunday today. Scroll down to skip a grim and very real story. Palm Sunday and…