Little Boy Blues: A Camilla Mcphee Mystery

After careers in librarianship and bookselling, Mary Jane Maffini has morphed into a successful and prolific crimewriter with sufficient peer approval tobecome president of the Crime Writers of Canada. In the last three years she’s ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Creation

By Katherine Govier

The whole bird-watching phenomenon is hard to get your head around: hordes of Tilley-hatted boomers, loaded down with binoculars and zoom lenses, travelling great distances in hot pursuit of ... a bird. That single-mindedness is ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ The Navigator of New York

By Wayne Johnston

Question number one: Who discovered the North Pole? If you said “Robert E. Peary, USA, 1909,” you would be echoing the popularly accepted view. But you might be surprised to learn that that view has ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Cinnamon Gardens

By Shyam Selvadurai

Is there a greater compliment a reader can pay a novel (and by extension, the novelist) than to say, “I was sorry when life interfered and I had to put it down, and I couldn’t ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

★ Clara Callan

By Richard B. Wright

Is there reason to worry about the Fresh-Face/First-Fiction flash? Here are the four elements currently valued by Canadian book publishing: smart marketing, good writing, flash haircuts, toned skin. Nothing to fear there, unless you are ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Hand

By Eric Wright

Today’s readers of crime fiction have come to expect a writer to supplement a mystery’s central riddle with psychologically apt meditations on the nature of evil. Eric Wright’s latest Charlie Salter mystery bucks this trend, ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Blood of Others

By Rick Mofina

Blood of Others is the latest gory thriller by Ottawa-based journalist Rick Mofina, who broke into the mystery/crime genre a few years ago with the bestseller If Angels Fall. His first two taut, intelligently written ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

Haunted Hearts

By John Lawrence Reynolds

It’s been almost a decade since Boston cop Joe McGuire last appeared in print – and he’s been greatly missed by discerning crime fiction readers. Since 1994, John Lawrence Reynolds has been favouring the more ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Lightning

By Fred Stenson

Veteran Alberta writer Fred Stenson recently made a bigger name for himself in CanLit with The Trade, a myth-shattering look at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Microsoft-like lock on the 19th-century Canadian fur trade. After chalking ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

International Date Line

By Dawn Howat

Anna Woods, the heroine of International Date Line, may well be the Canadian doppelganger to Britain’s Bridget Jones in this chatty, unpretentious debut novel by Dawn Howat. Poised on the cusp of her 30th year, ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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