The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: mystery

  • Louise Penny’s The Black Wolf

    As The Black Wolf opens, Clara is struggling with the completion of her latest art project, a series entitled Just before something happens, which anticipates one of the key themes of Penny’s latest novel: how to portray the time that precedes a dramatic, or traumatic, event? How, even, to know if one is in the…

  • Eric Wright and Canadian Academic Crime Fiction

    I’ve been researching mystery stories set on Canadian campuses, and that’s directed me to writers I’ve intended to read for years, including the prolific Eric Wright (1929-2015). Wright authored four crime fiction series, and his achievement is especially impressive given his relatively late start as a novelist. The first decades of his career were taken…

  • Uzma Jalaluddin’s Detective Aunty

    Here’s something new and different, and very welcome: a murder mystery (cozy-ish) set in a multicultural Scarborough neighbourhood with a widowed Indo-Canadian woman in her late 50s as the plucky heroine. Uzma Jalaluddin is a Canadian author and journalist who has written acclaimed fiction and one play; this is her first murder mystery. Kausar Khan’s…