Category Archives: Canada

Review: The Edge by Dick Francis

Posted on December 20, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

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 of a great train journey … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Dick Francis | 4 Comments

Review: Forty Words for Sorrow by Giles Blunt

Posted on December 17, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

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 had been kidnapped and probably murdered … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Giles Blunt | 6 Comments

Review: A Colder Kind of Death by Gail Bowen

Posted on November 22, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

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 husband was bashed … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Gail Bowen | 10 Comments

Review: Negative Image by Vicki Delany

Posted on October 31, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

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 the half-way point of the … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Vicki Delany | 8 Comments

Review: The Dead of Midnight by Catherine Hunter

Posted on October 23, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

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 weren’t for participating in a … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Catherine Hunter | 4 Comments

Review: The Taken by Inger Ash Wolfe

Posted on October 12, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

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 books, whoever … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Inger Ash Wolfe | 5 Comments

Review: Dead Politician Society by Robin Spano

Posted on October 4, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

A mystery-writing college professor I know recently joked (?) that the reason the victims in her first two books had been college students was that it was more polite behaviour than killing the real thing. As I don’t write fiction … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Robin Spano | 12 Comments

Review: The Devil’s in the Details by Mary Jane Maffini

Posted on September 12, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

This is my third book for the Canadian Book Challenge #4 and puts me at Ishpatina Ridge on the list of 13 mountains to climb (thankfully I’m only climbing virtually). One Labour Day weekend Camilla McPhee, lawyer and victim’s rights … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Mary Jane Maffini | 8 Comments

Review: The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

Posted on September 2, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

I chose this as the second book to count towards the Canadian Book Challenge #4 In 1867 in the small Canadian town of Caulfield a French trapper Laurent Jammet, is murdered. His body is discovered by a neighbour, Mrs Ross, … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Stef Penney | 15 Comments

Review: April Fool by William Deverell

Posted on August 7, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

I’m counting this as the last book on the North American leg of my Global Reading challenge as well as the first stop on my Canadian Book Challenge which measures progress in terms of mountain peaks climbed so I have reached … Continue reading →

Posted in book review, Canada, Canadian Book Challenge #4, 2010-11, Global Reading Challenge 2010, William Deverell | 9 Comments