Every Wickedness

Writers like Patricia Cornwell, Kathy Reichs, and James Patterson have made careers writing about serial killers, to the point where the saga of the multiple murderer has practically become a genre unto itself. Ontario writer ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Telling of Stars

By Caitlin Sweet

Readers expecting a traditional, high fantasy epic from A Telling of Stars, the debut novel from writer Caitlin Sweet, will quickly grow confused and frustrated. While still working within the genre parameters of standard fantasy, ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Great Dance on Earth

By Sandra Gulland

Sandra Gulland’s trilogy of the life of Josephine Bonaparte is told by way of the heroine’s fictional diary entries. The first novel, The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B., covered her early life ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

In a Dry Season: An Inspector Banks Mystery

By Peter Robinson

Arthur Ellis Award-winner Peter Robinson offers a two-track package in his latest Inspector Banks mystery. While we follow Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks through his investigation of a 50-year-old murder, the real story emerges in ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Strong Hollow

By Linda Little

At the age of 19, Jackson Bigney discovers his hard-drinking, unloving father dead in a ditch and barely says a word; not long after he builds himself a cabin out behind the family farm and ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The View from Tamischeira

By Richard Cumyn

The facts are these: in the late 19th century Canadian poet Archibald Lampman and scientist Reginald Fessenden became friends while attending Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario. Katherine Waddell worked with Lampman at the ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

If Angels Fall

By Rick Mofina

Ottawa-based journalist Rick Mofina has produced a debut thriller that isn’t exactly thrilling, but charges ahead anyway, until the reader gives in to its anguished momentum. The plot concerns a spate of child kidnappings in ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Fiction: Novels

The Celtic Riddle

By Lyn Hamilton

There are two types of crime fiction that commonly cop all the literary attention: hardboiled and psychological. Hardboiled fiction is terse and sulphurous, and features the kind of pulpy plots and characters that screenwriters swoon ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Polished Hoe

By Austin Clarke

There are these rum advertisements that have been getting a lot of airplay in the U.K. recently. The commercials are set in a few tropical, sun-bleached locales in the West Indies and the action consists ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Callahan’s Con

By Spider Robinson

For more than a quarter-century, the gang from Callahan’s Place has been facing interplanetary peril, exploring strange new species (and drinks), and pushing the boundaries of physics and fiction alike. Spider Robinson’s ongoing series of ... Read More »

February 20, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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