Final Take: A Harriet Hubbley Mystery

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 »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

A Killing Spring: A Joanne Kilbourne Mystery

By Gail Bowen

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Plane Death: A Mystery Novel

By Anne M. Dooley

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Seeing Is Deceiving

By Suzanne North

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ear-witness

By Mary Ann Scott

“It was 7:35 a.m. and I was desperate.” From the opening sentence of Ear-Witness the territory is clearly defined. We are in the gritty, mean-street world of detective fiction. All the gumshoe conventions are here ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fables of the Times Tables

By Brigitte E. Kortright,Dennis Nobel, illus.

Rote memorization, once a time-honoured teaching tool, has really gone out of style. Days when kids could recite “The Cremation of Sam McGee” are gone forever, so much so that many children now fail to ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Throwaway Angels

By Nancy Richler

Throwaway Angels is the first novel from Vancouver writer Nancy Richler and it’s set in the parts of the city that aren’t covered in the travel books. The central character, Tova, observes the lives of ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Shinju

By Laura Joh Rowland

Aspiring authors looking for an entrée into publishability and as yet unencumbered with genre might consider writing a historical mystery. Readers, no longer satisfied with the pure entertainment value of a thriller, are craving a ... Read More »

March 10, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels