Ruby Ruby: A Murder Mystery

After almost two decades of stellar and world-class Canadian crime fiction from writers such as Gail Bowen, Howard Engel, Peter Robinson, Ted Wood, and the two Wrights (Eric and L.R.), there is no phalanx of ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Speak Ill of the Dead: A Camilla Macphee Mystery

By Mary Jane Maffini

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Pluto Rising: A Katy Klein Mystery

By Karen Irving

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Burning Ground

By Pearl Luke

Isolated from civilization for five months at the sardonically named Envy River Tower, with little more than a small cabin, watch tower, and outhouse, lives Percy Turner, a young woman deep in the throes of ... Read More »

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

Voyageurs

By Margaret Elphinstone

The best historical fiction is worth reading for two reasons: it tells a good story, and it imparts a lot of information painlessly. Scottish writer Margaret Elphinstone’s Voyageurs almost succeeds on both counts. Mark Greenhow, ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Death Du Jour

By Kathy Reichs

Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs was the first-time crime-novelist sensation of 1997. Her acclaimed debut, Déjà Dead, made the New York Times bestseller list, won the Arthur Ellis Award, and was a bestseller in both Canada ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Dead of Winter

By Lisa Appignanesi

Set in Montreal immediately following the 1989 massacre of 14 women at Université de Montréal, Lisa Appignanesi’s fifth novel begins with the apparent suicide of a fictional stage actress named Madeleine Blais, and follows the ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Death of a Sunday Writer

By Eric Wright

Classic Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett detectives are urban updates of the Old West cowboy: tough guy loners, ropin’ and ridin’ outside the confounded confines of the family, who find females appealing so long as ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Strangers Among Us: A Karl Alberg Mystery

By L.R. Wright

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Northern Suns

By David G. Hartwell and Glenn Grant, eds.

Canadians have never been a people to harbour imperial ambitions. We’re an offshoot of one failed empire and the neighbour of its successor. When it comes to the arts, Canadians are cultural chameleons, quietly absorbing ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

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