The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: val-mcdermid

  • Val McDermid’s Silent Bones (Karen Pirie #8)

    Scottish crime writer Val McDermid is prolific as well as extraordinarily accomplished: she writes some of the best crime fiction currently in print, and she continues to challenge herself with more complex plots and characterizations. Karen Pirie, the Historical Cases investigator who is the protagonist of this series, is a good example. McDermid has portrayed…

  • Sex & Sensitivity

    Val McDermid, of all people, needed a sensitivity reader for the re-issue of her earliest crime fiction, the wonderful Lindsay Gordon novels. But hear me out: this is actually a good thing, not an indication of “snowflake culture” or generational divides. I read the novels soon after they were published, and one of the things…

  • Crime Fiction Festivals: A Few Thoughts

    A brief post, today, because deadlines are looming for three writing projects and two reviewing tasks. But I’m also planning a trip, and working out how to be in Stirling for Bloody Scotland in the middle of September. As with most large events held in small-ish cities, finding accommodation is the tricky part, so I’m…