The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Ruth Ware

  • Mountain Thrillers and “Alpine Divorces”

    Cover image of Elinor M. Brent-Dyer’s The Mystery at the Chalet School, 1947. I’m working on a piece about crime fiction set in Canadian mountainous regions (mostly the Rockies), and that has me dipping into Alpine crime fiction from other nations, for comparison. But let’s start with the new-to-me phrase “alpine divorce.” This is not…

  • Louise Hegarty’s Fair Play and Ruth Ware’s The Woman in Suite 11

    Crime fiction has strict-ish genre conventions, with distinctive expectations for police procedurals, noir-type thrillers, and domestic cozies. In one new novel, a debut author from Ireland has fun–with a serious intent–exploring how mystery conventions can offer reassuring certainty, in the wake of a sudden and unexpected death. And in another, an internationally acclaimed crime writer…