The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: writing

  • Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

    Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five shifts the focus from the shadowy figure of the 1888 Whitechapel serial killer who came to be known as Jack the Ripper to the women he murdered. The Five is a deeply researched social history. Rubenhold isn’t interested in trying to identify the killer or in delving into the gruesome details…

  • 4th of July: Murder Ballads and Gretchen Peters’s “Independence Day”

    Katy Horan’s gorgeously illustrated and chilling little book compiles twenty traditional murder ballads, some of them well known and others less familiar (at least to me), with insightful analysis of the genre. She Wore Black, a fun podcast about things gothic, horror, and mystery, has an interview with her that’s worth a listen. Horan talks…

  • Celebrating the Work of Gail Bowen (1942-2026)

    In March, Canadian crime writer Gail Bowen included in her Newsletter a brief excerpt from her forthcoming–and final–novel in the Joanne Kilbourn Shreve series. It’s entitled Homecoming. Last night Bowen’s many fans across Canada and around the world learned the sad news that she has passed away. Bowen published her first novel featuring Regina, Saskatchewan…