The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: writing

  • My 2025 Crime Fiction Highlights

    In 2025, the highlight was the Bloody Scotland festival in Stirling, which featured prominent crime writers like Kate Atkinson and Ian Rankin, as well as opportunities for emerging authors. Alongside notable events, Louise Penny enjoyed major achievements, including a café opening and a new book release. However, some disappointments arose from missed appearances and underwhelming…

  • Considering Alice Munro

    I’ve been spending a fair amount of time working on a Munro chapter, in my Canadian women’s crime fiction book. The revisions since the spring have been rather more extensive than I’d anticipated. I thought I was writing about how Munro depicts violent crime, or suspicion that crimes have been committed, in a range of…

  • Newspaper Coverage of Crime Fiction

    I’ve been grumpy for some time about how diminished the Globe & Mail‘s book coverage has been, lo these many years. I miss having a Books section, with a weekly column on crime fiction by Margaret Cannon. (Dream job!) That’s down to once a month or less, and it’s more of a quick round-up. But…