The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Children’s Crime Fiction: The Chalet School and the Right’s Embrace of The Hardy Boys, Racism and All

    I’ve had a busy week of drafting applications, and one of these (completed! submitted!) required multiple short essays documenting my interest in mountain literature. I resisted citing the Chalet School novels as my earliest immersion in serial fiction in a mountain setting, but it’s hard for me to think about alpine lit without a wistful…

  • Marsha Mildon’s Cal Meredith Books

    A puzzle: during the 1990s, two terrific authors of lesbian private investigator series emerged from the bucolic but small city of Victoria, British Columbia. Both had American publishers, and I’ve described previously how Lauren Wright Douglas was part of the sprawling genre fiction output of Naiad Press, based in Florida. Marsha Mildon‘s two books in…

  • Alafair Burke: A Crime (Writing) Family

    I’m nearly finished Alafair Burke’s new novel, The Note, which starts a bit slowly but then picks up, in a big way. And since I’ve never written on here about how much I enjoy both Burke’s fiction and (in a more moderate way) the prolific literary output of her father, James Lee Burke, this seems…