The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Margaret Atwood

  • 2026 Reading and Writing Resolutions

    Not all of my resolutions are linked to crime fiction. I’ve also picked up some new sheet music so I can learn more pieces by female composers, and that will be a welcome break from writing. I’m looking forward to teaching creative nonfiction and to trekking out to our college’s new suburban campus to teach…

  • 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…

  • Recent Research on Canadian Crime Fiction

    I’m prepping spring/summer writing courses, and that had me looking up new and interesting sources about Canada-U.S. relations, in the hope that this will be an engaging topic for class members. Serendipitously, one of the first articles to turn up was about crime fiction–Robert M. Timko’s recent article on the first nine seasons of Murdoch…