The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Con Artists, Scam Artists, Escape Artists: My Zenias and Atwood’s The Robber Bride

    “You might become a detective. You might become a con artist yourself. Or, a blend of the two: you might become a novelist.” Margaret Atwood on writing “The history of the world, my sweet Oh, Mr. Todd, ooh, Mr. Todd What does it tell? Is who gets eaten, and who gets to eat” Atwood’s recent…

  • Kathy Reichs’s Déja Dead: A Great Series Begins

    This week has been a Faulknerian one for me: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” I’ve experienced multiple forms of déja vu all over again, to quote Yogi Berra. So it’s a perfect time to return to the 1997 first novel in Kathy Reichs’s celebrated series of crime novels featuring forensic anthropologist…

  • Feminist Revenge Fantasies, Coercive Control, and Intimate Partner Violence

    And today, because I’m grappling with this in two other forms of writing, a brief foray into intimate partner violence and proposed Canadian legislation about coercive control. My former Member of Parliament, Laurel Collins, twice brought forward legislation in the House of Commons to address a gap in the law related to “a pattern of…