The Guilty Plea

After more than two years, criminal lawyer Robert Rotenberg returns to the fictional courthouses, chambers, back rooms, and dark halls of Toronto’s legal demimonde, and to the methodical and unassuming investigative habits of detective Ari ... Read More »

July 21, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Death of a Lesser Man

By Thomas Rendell Curran

Death of a Lesser Man sees Inspector Eric Stride, the detective hero of Undertow and The Rossiter File, return to his stomping grounds in postwar Newfoundland. This time around, Stride is tasked to look into ... Read More »

July 21, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Creep

By Jennifer Hillier

It should be the happiest time of her life, but Dr. Sheila Tao has never been so miserable. She’s a tenured professor of psychology at Puget Sound University. She’s engaged. Everything is perfect – except ... Read More »

July 18, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Various Positions

By Martha Schabas

Georgia, the teenaged protagonist of Martha Schabas’s debut novel, is nearly out of middle school. She can’t wait to ditch her uncouth peers for the purity and purposefulness of freshman year at the Royal Toronto ... Read More »

July 11, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Reinventing the Rose

By Kenneth J. Harvey

If there isn’t a category of literature known as Maritime Postmodern, Kenneth J. Harvey continues to make a case that there should be, with himself as its leading proponent. Like 2006’s Inside, about a wrongly ... Read More »

June 20, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Alone in the Classroom

By Elizabeth Hay

For many, the title of Elizabeth Hay’s new novel will resurrect unpleasant memories. Who among us did not suffer cruel teasing, bullying, or punishment in the classroom for sins such as failing to master math, ... Read More »

June 9, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Erasing Memory

By Scott Thornley

Why do crime-fiction readers love series so much? The best explanation I can come up with involves merging two oft-repeated axioms: “get in late, leave early” and “leave ’em wanting more.” The best series fiction ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Water Rat of Wanchai

By Ian Hamilton

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Idaho Winter

By Tony Burgess

Tony Burgess is one of Canadian fiction’s most distinctive voices, characterized by a penchant for pushing envelopes and going to uncomfortable extremes. Idaho Winter, a short novel about a short novel that goes off the ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Into the Heart of the Country

By Pauline Holdstock

In her fifth novel, Vancouver Island author Pauline Holdstock turns her attention to a largely ignored and overlooked part of Canadian history: the lives of native women who lived at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Prince ... Read More »

May 27, 2011 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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