White Noise

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

The Bookfair Murders

By Anna Porter

Anna Porter’s The Bookfair Murders is really two stories: a murder mystery set against a background of wheeling and dealing in the publishing game – a John Grisham with book agents instead of lawyers – ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Prairie Hardball: A Kate Henry Mystery

By Alison Gordon

Alison Gordon, who once covered the Blue Jays for The Toronto Star, has faced the problem of finding a new way to say the same old thing before. Given that major league teams play a ... 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

Romancing the Stones

By Janis Flores

Romance has always been a popular genre. That it accounts for almost half of all mass market paperback sales proves that readers prefer it (even if critics and academics don’t). The publishers of romance understand ... Read More »

March 7, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels