Tag: thriller
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“Turn Back, Turn Back, You Young Bride”: Grim/m Stories of Murderous Husbands
The most common trope of one strand of domestic thriller is the murderous spouse, nearly always a husband. In a milder version of the story, he’s merely untrustworthy: a liar, a con man, a bigamist (arguably, Jane Eyre‘s Rochester is all three). But from Hitchcock’s Suspicion to the gaslighting husband of The Girl on the…
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The Mystery of Bestsellers
As part of my Certificate in Creative Writing at U of T, I’ve been trying to take a course on how to write bestsellers, but it’s been cancelled a couple of times in a row (surely not for lack of student interest?). I’m signing up again for a spring session, but the instructor is ominously…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 