The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: mystery

  • My 2025 Crime Fiction Highlights

    In 2025, the highlight was the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling, which featured prominent crime writers like Kate Atkinson and Ian Rankin, as well as opportunities for emerging authors. Alongside notable events, Louise Penny enjoyed major achievements, including a café opening and a new book release. However, some disappointments arose from missed appearances and underwhelming…

  • Lauren Wright Douglas’s The Rage of Maidens

    My fall research task was drafting a chapter on lesbian private investigators in Canadian crime fiction. I’m only about halfway there, but it’s been a lot of fun. I discussed Eve Zaremba‘s fiction recently, and I’m reading Liz Bugg, Jackie Manthorne, and Marsha Mildon. Naiad Press was a lesbian publishing house headed by the formidable…

  • 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…