The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Spring Book Haul

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    Heidi Darroch
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    I don’t typically accumulate a substantial number of mysteries when I’m already in the midst of reading several new books. And I need to finish up Eliza Reid’s Death on the Island (with thanks to NetGalley for the preview) and Janice Hallett’s art school-email mystery, which manages to make an LMS messaging tool interesting. But…

  • Agatha Christie and the Character of the Victim

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    Heidi Darroch
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    I’ve been on a Christie binge, and yet once more. I’m re-reading Evil Under the Sun while alternating 4.50 to Paddington and Dead Man’s Folly as evening viewing. Interspersed with The Magpie Murders, which is terrific, but moves along at a very stately pace. There’s a Japanese adaptation of 4.50 to Paddington that I’d love…

  • Christmas Mysteries: New and Old

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    Heidi Darroch
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    I have a fondness for publishers’ efforts to package a motley collection of mostly non-holiday themed stories under a a Christmas-y title, with perhaps 1-2 actual Yuletide tales. It’s a good way to put together what is effective a miscellany of shorter works by authors who usually write novels. Since short stories can be ephemeral,…