The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: mystery

  • 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…

  • Nancy Taber’s A Sea of Spectres

    I tend to steer clear of paranormal mysteries. There’s a whole sub-genre of crime fiction that involves ghosts, psychic phenomena, astrology, or witches. And I love a good ghost story. Rebecca thrills me, and Vertigo is brilliant. But in these instances, the gothic shadings turn out to have very concrete origins. Not so in paranormal…

  • Margaret Millar

    Not travelling to the U.S. is impeding my research only when it comes to one author, the Canadian-American Margaret Millar (1915-1994), who was very famous in her day. In an astute 1971 New York Times review of Daphne du Maurier’s new novel, Millar points out that du Maurier’s books work better when they’re written in…