The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: thriller

  • 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,…

  • Canada Reads and Thrillers: Not a Good Fit?

    The sample size is two, so this is a limited basis on which to draw a conclusion, but it’s interesting: last year Samantha M. Bailey’s domestic suspense thriller was the first book eliminated from the Canada Reads competition, and this year it’s Iain Reid’s Foe. I haven’t read Foe, which is a thriller written in…

  • Gone Girl: Gillian Flynn’s Genius (and Subsequent Silence)

    Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck in “Gone Girl,” directed by David Fincher. Photo: Merrick Morton/20th Century Fox Gillian Flynn published three novels, culminating in the 2012 sensation Gone Girl. Since then–no more books. It’s a bit like Willy Wonka shutting down the chocolate factory. Sharp Objects, adapted as an acclaimed television series, is about Camille,…