The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: reading

  • The Writing (and Reading) Life

    Photo of the University of King’s College Arts and Administrative Building by Robert Alfers, used with permission under CC license. I’ve recently returned from an intense (exhausting, exhilarating) 10-day MFA residency in Creative Nonfiction. I spent my evenings and our one day off keeping up with my online students, who quite reasonably still needed timely…

  • Jane Doucet’s Blood Typed: A New Halifax Cozy Series

    Jane Doucet’s Blood Typed, the author’s fourth novel but first mystery, appeared in print last month. This is a fun addition to Canadian crime fiction, with a focus on Halifax and, more generally, Nova Scotia settings, including the South Shore and scenic Mahone Bay as well as Wolfville, the home of Acadia University. And oddly,…

  • Jessica Knoll’s Helpless

    According to her new book’s publicity, Jessica Knoll’s Helpless, due out in July, is a “smoldering erotic thriller with a singular, mind-bending ending.” Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance look. This is the third Jessica Knoll novel that I’ve attempted to read; I’m going to try the The Luckiest Girl Alive…