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Review: The Taken by Inger Ash Wolfe
This is the fifth book for my Canadian Book Challenge and is the second novel from an author whose use of a pseudonym has caused more discussion than the books in some quarters. I’m happy to read the...
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Review: The Dead of Midnight by Catherine Hunter
This is the sixth book I’m counting towards the challenge which requires me to read 13 Canadian books by 1 July 2011. It is yet another great book that I probably wouldn’t have stumbled across if it...
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Review: Negative Image by Vicki Delany
The 7th book which will count towards my Canadian Book Challenge is the newest installment of Vicki Delany’s Constable Molly Smith series and is due for publication on 2 Nov 2010. This pushes me over...
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Review: A Colder Kind of Death by Gail Bowen
The 8th book I will count towards the current Canadian Book Challenge is the fourth in its series and won the 1995 Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel. It has been six years since Joanne Kilbourn’s...
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Books of the Month – November 2010
That Was Then November was another good reading month for me as I finished 14 books. My favourite was the second installment of the Ruth Galloway series by Elly Griffiths: The Janus Stone. Happily the...
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Review: Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt
I read Giles Blunt’s first crime novel as the 9th book in my 13-book Canadian Book Challenge. Detective John Cardinal of the Algonquin Bay Police Department worked the Katie Pine case as though she...
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Review: The Edge by Dick Francis
I know Francis wasn’t Canadian but I am including this book as the 10th in my Canadian Book Challenge because it is not only set there but celebrates the natural beauty of the country via its depiction...
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Review: The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
My second reading goal for 2011 (other than reducing my TBR) is to read an occasional novel outside my preferred crime fiction genre. And I couldn’t really complete a Canadian Book Challenge without...
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Review: The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
The Brutal Telling is my face-to-face bookclub’s choice this month and I’m also using it as the 12th of 13 books I need to read to complete the Canadian Book Challenge #4. In the fictional Quebec...
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Review: An Ordinary Decent Criminal by Michael Van Rooy
After a strong start I’ve let my completion of the Canadian Book Challenge limp along for the past few months but have finally gotten around to reading the 13th and final book which allows me to...
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