Tag: the-retreat

  • Mountain Crime Fiction and Elisabeth de Mariaffi’s The Retreat

    The premise of my book project is that place is central to storytelling in Canadian crime fiction. The novels I analyze are set in locations as diverse as tiny fishing villages in Newfoundland, the Foothills of the Rockies, and Vancouver’s bucolic UBC campus (very thinly disguised). In each work, the physical locale, including climate, landscape,…