Angry Young Spaceman

The scenario is a familiar one: Sam Breen, a twenty-something white guy fresh out of university, is stifled by a privileged life in Toronto and splits to teach English in a faraway land. He acclimates ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Let Loose the Dogs

By Maureen Jennings

Among the retro charms of this historical whodunit is its lone, modestly snuffed corpse. Maureen Jennings’ Victorian mystery centres around just one killing – a simple, even drab affair in which a man drinks too ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Crossing the Distance

By Evan Solomon

Evan Solomon is busy. In the 1990s alone, Solomon – now in his early 30s – ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pack up the Moon

By Richard Teleky

It’s difficult at first to decide why Richard Teleky’s Pack Up the Moon isn’t as good as it should be. The writing is spare and elegant, the plot plausible, the details evocative. There are some ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Death on the Rocks

By Eric Wright

Lucy Trimble, Eric Wright’s third Canadian detective series character, makes her second appearance in Death on the Rocks. Her debut in Death of a Sunday Writer saw the fifty-something small-town library worker and oppressed housewife ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Way the Crow Flies

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

It seems amazing that no Canadian fiction writer up to now has taken on the story of Steven Truscott. A number of non-fiction books have been written over the years about the 1959 death of ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Due Preparations for the Plague

By Janette Turner Hospital

With her latest novel, Due Preparations for the Plague, Janette Turner Hospital has crafted a testament of loss and despair, an artful narrative that blurs the boundaries between popular and literary fiction. Lowell Hawthorne lost ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Hua Shan Hospital Murders

By David Rotenberg

This bizarre thriller fits into a genre that can only be described as “entertainment for older white males who are captivated by adventures with Asian women.” The most disturbing thing about the book is the ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Ferryman Will Be There

By Rosemary Aubert

Since Ellis Portal, disgraced ex-judge turned street person, first emerged from his hovel in one of Toronto’s elaborate ravine systems in Rosemary Aubert’s first novel Free Reign, he has made great strides toward personal rehabilitation. ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Bed of Nails

By Michael Slade

The Michael Slade series of grisly thrillers is the work of a group of writers spearheaded by Jay Clark, a Vancouver trial lawyer. Clark has acted as both defense and crown attorney in dozens of ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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