Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

Banjo Lessons

By David Carpenter

In Tim Fisher, the anti-hero of David Carpenter’s seventh book, the prairie author has created an engaging character whose struggle toward independence and maturity fills this long and frequently very funny coming-of-age novel. Set in Alberta, ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Frameshift

By Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer has been making quite a name for himself recently in science fiction circles. In a handful of years the Thornhill, Ontario novelist has gone from writing pleasant but lightweight fantasy stories involving ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Best of Enemies

By Taylor Smith

Former Canadian diplomat Taylor Smith spent 12 years working with foreign intelligence agencies before she began writing. Inspired by her own observations of the machinations of the CIA and Britain’s MI-6, her thrillers cry out ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Sudden Death

By Jackie Manthorne

A lesbian detective may seem an obvious twist on the renchcoat-wearing outsider of classic hard-boiled detective fiction. But a dyke detective isn’t just a social outcast who fits the role and catches the crook. Jackie ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

White Noise

By Eve Zaremba

A lesbian detective may seem an obvious twist on the renchcoat-wearing outsider of classic hard-boiled detective fiction. But a dyke detective isn’t just a social outcast who fits the role and catches the crook. Jackie ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Downshift

By Matt Hughes

Mystery readers are used to fictional detectives from a wide variety of occupations, but the freelance writer/sleuth is a new species on the Canadian scene. Sid Rafferty, it turns out, is a lot like his ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels