The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Back in Print: Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon

    My Canada Day treat is this delight: the first volume in Val McDermid’s Lindsay Gordon series, her first set of novels. Report for Murder, first published in 1987, was McDermid’s début; she was a newspaper journalist when she created the UK’s first lesbian detective, an amateur investigator who is also a reporter when the series…

  • 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…