Quill and Quire

Fiction: Novels

★ Lost Girls

By Andrew Pyper

Andrew Pyper does for Northern Ontario what Charles Dickens did for the streets of London: he brings the landscape alive, giving it a sense of character and history. On the surface, Lost Girls is about ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Laughing Falcon

By William Deverell

Political subterfuge, an exotic locale, and potential romance are popular potent ingredients for action thrillers, but it’s a tricky cocktail to concoct. The Laughing Falcon, William Deverell’s 11th novel, begins with Maggie Schneider, a harmless ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Elle

By Douglas Glover

Douglas Glover’s ninth book, Elle, opens with a Rabelaisian scene of illicit fornication and vomiting. It is promising stuff – lascivious, bizarre, entertaining – and while much of the novel lives up to that promise, ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Every Wickedness

By Cathy Vasas-Brown

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