Have you to thank for discovering Wiebe. But I know what you mean about genre fiction lazily shoehorning in a landmark. Read a novel recently where characters stayed at The Edmonton Hotel and witnessed a murder at the Edmonton Theatre in the heart of Edmonton's Edmonton district.
I’m so curious about this Edmonton book. You know who writes really good Edmonton though? Conor Kerr. Also Anna Maria Sewell has at least two books set in a sort of decolonized or decolonizing version of Edmonton. They’re private eye books mixed with Indigenous mythology (shapeshifters feature prominently in the first one, Humane) and a lot of fun. They break all the genre rules while still doing what genre books do best.
Oh fantastic! I'll check out both those authors! I'm embarrassed to say I sought out a recent Murder She Wrote novel precisely because it was set here, but it was the laziest sense of place I had read in awhile. The bar shouldn't be high for that series, but it had both Jon Land and Donald Bain as authors for a long time and they're solid.
Have you to thank for discovering Wiebe. But I know what you mean about genre fiction lazily shoehorning in a landmark. Read a novel recently where characters stayed at The Edmonton Hotel and witnessed a murder at the Edmonton Theatre in the heart of Edmonton's Edmonton district.
I’m so curious about this Edmonton book. You know who writes really good Edmonton though? Conor Kerr. Also Anna Maria Sewell has at least two books set in a sort of decolonized or decolonizing version of Edmonton. They’re private eye books mixed with Indigenous mythology (shapeshifters feature prominently in the first one, Humane) and a lot of fun. They break all the genre rules while still doing what genre books do best.
Oh fantastic! I'll check out both those authors! I'm embarrassed to say I sought out a recent Murder She Wrote novel precisely because it was set here, but it was the laziest sense of place I had read in awhile. The bar shouldn't be high for that series, but it had both Jon Land and Donald Bain as authors for a long time and they're solid.
I read a Hardy Boys book as a kid where they had a layover in Saskatoon—where I lived at the time. It changed my life.
Thanks for the kind words, Emmet! I love CRAB Park, and I have to thank/credit Mercedes Eng for hanging out there.