The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • 4th of July: Murder Ballads and Gretchen Peters’s “Independence Day”

    Katy Horan’s gorgeously illustrated and chilling little book compiles twenty traditional murder ballads, some of them well known and others less familiar (at least to me), with insightful analysis of the genre. She Wore Black, a fun podcast about things gothic, horror, and mystery, has an interview with her that’s worth a listen. Horan talks…

  • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Turns 100: Suspense and Spoilers

    Agatha Christie published her daring and innovative crime novel in June of 1926. This month there are festivities galore to celebrate the centenary. It’s not like the novel hasn’t already been fêted extensively: in 2013, the British Crime Writers’ Association declared Christie the best crime novelist of all time, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd…

  • TV’s Hudson & Rex: A Fan Campaign Brings Back the Leading Man

    Hudson & Rex is a fun Canadian television oddity: a crime-by-the-week series unabashedly set in St. John’s, Newfoundland that features the city’s landmarks and an array of gorgeous provincial settings as key elements. Mary Walsh has a recurring role as a former police archivist who ends up in prison, and then briefly manages a prison…