An Inexplicable Story: The Narrative of Questus Firmus Siculus

In his slim new novel, Josef Skvorecky riffs on a pair of historian’s hobby horses: the mysterious exile and disappearance of legendary sex poet Ovid, and the argument that the Romans might have invented steam ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Glass Coffin: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery

By Gail Bowen

The difference between tough-but-tender female crimebusters and their busybodyish counterparts (think Angela Lansbury in Murder She Wrote) comes down to how they handle their beverages. Thick-skinned lady detectives tend to spend at least one rainy ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

★ Ten Thousand Lovers

By Edeet Ravel

Edeet Ravel’s debut novel, Ten Thousand Lovers, is a stunning book, a must-read for anyone who likes a love story and who cares about justice, humanity, and the state of the world. The time is ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Last Crossing

By Guy Vanderhaeghe

The Last Crossing, Guy Vanderhaeghe’s seventh work of fiction, rewalks the landscape of 1996’s The Englishman’s Boy. We are back in Fort Benton, snugged up against a tributary of the muddy Missouri, the whiskey posts ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Quilted Heart

By R. M. Vaughan

R.M. Vaughan, at the beginning of A Quilted Heart, advises: “Friends may read this fiction and come to believe the persons represented within are themselves, or perhaps other friends. They will be wrong.” This caveat, ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Once upon a Time: An Inspector Green Mystery

By Barbara Fradkin

In crime fiction, the gifted detective can always see through the apparent surface of normality to the truth. When 80-year-old Eugene Walker dies of evident hypothermia in an icy parking lot, only Ottawa Police Inspector ... Read More »

February 22, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Ruby Ruby: A Murder Mystery

By Bradley Harris

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

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