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Fiction: Novels

Double Negative

By Leona Gom

Once upon a time a mystery was a mystery. Readers could count on a crime (hopefully, nothing too suggestive of real life), a handful of suspects, a crime-solver (typically an isolated fantasy figure), a few ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Hoot to Kill

By Karen Dudley

Once upon a time a mystery was a mystery. Readers could count on a crime (hopefully, nothing too suggestive of real life), a handful of suspects, a crime-solver (typically an isolated fantasy figure), a few ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Drink the Sky

By Lesley Krueger

In Lesley Krueger’s Drink the Sky, part carefully wrought thriller, part eco-excursion into the heart of darkness, a young Canadian woman struggles with questions of identity against the backdrop of modern Brazil. While her environmentalist ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Jump

By Marianne Ackerman

The coming of age novel is traditionally a story of adolescence, where a first experience of love, sex, freedom, or “the other” is the gateway to maturity. In later life, the absence or departure of ... Read More »

February 19, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels