The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Louise Penny

  • Louise Penny’s A World of Curiosities, Donna Decker’s Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, and the Fictional Portrayal of the Montreal Massacre

    Louise Penny’s A World of Curiosities, Donna Decker’s Dancing in Red Shoes Will Kill You, and the Fictional Portrayal of the Montreal Massacre

    This week, a fellow seeking to be the next Prime Minister of Canada had to apologize to Nathalie Provost. A survivor of the Montreal Massacre, she has been a vocal advocate for gun control and is running for the federal Liberal party. Great non-partisan news! However, Mark Carney referred to the site of the violence…

  • Canada-U.S. Relations and Louise Penny’s Fiction

    Borders and citizenship have been on my mind. In the current climate, it feels more necessary to attend to the relationship between the two countries than I had intended to do in my book project. My teaching materials on Canadian cultural nationalism and sovereignty and American cultural imperialism are getting a dust-off for revision in…

  • Louise Penny’s Still Life: A Milestone Anniversary

    September 30th will be the 20th anniversary of Penny’s first novel, Still Life. She famously couldn’t find a publisher until she placed second in what was then called the Debut Dagger contest for unpublished mystery writers, a UK-based prize now termed the Emerging Author Dagger. (The image above is AI-generated with the prompt “Louise Penny…