Suzanne North

Suzanne North
Born
Suzanne North

1945 (age 79–80)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
OccupationAuthor

Suzanne North (born 1945) is a Canadian author based out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Career

North has written for magazines, documentary films and CBC Television. She is also the author of the Phoebe Fairfax mystery series.[1][2] Her mystery novels have sold well in Canada (her first book is in its third printing) as well as internationally (most notably Germany and Iceland).[3] Her latest work, a literary novel, Flying Time, was published in 2014.[4][5] The Historical Novel Society has written that "Flying Time is an example of what literary historical fiction does well: provides a snapshot of a time and place through the small evolutions in relationships in a clearly defined context. North's evocation of Calgary in 1939 is masterly, a clear sketch that is never too heavy on detail."[6]

David Skene-Melvin's chapter "Canadian Crime Writing in English" found in Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film highlights North's importance to the genre of Crime fiction in Canada: "One of the more welcome aspects of the proliferation of crime writing during the last generation is the exponential increase in female detectives by female writers" including Suzanne North.[7]

Her 1994 mystery, Healthy, Wealthy and Dead (NeWest Press), was on the Crime Writers of Canada's best-seller list and was short-listed for the Arthur Ellis Award.[8]

Selected works

  • — (1994). Healthy Wealthy, & Dead. NeWest Publishers, Limited. ISBN 9780920897553.
  • — (1996). Seeing is Deceiving. Starburst Digital Rights International Incorporated. ISBN 9781928014027.
  • — (2002). Bones to Pick. Starburst Digital Rights International Incorporated. ISBN 9781928014041.
  • — (2014). Flying Time. Brindle and Glass. ISBN 9781927366233.

References

  1. ^ Saskatchewan Weekend (March 23, 2014). "Saskatoon Author Suzanne North Discusses "Flying Time"". CBC. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
  2. ^ Colleen Barnett (2011). Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised): An Encyclopedia of Leading Women Characters in Mystery Fiction: 1990-2002. Poisoned Pen Press. pp. 54–255. ISBN 9781615950102.
  3. ^ Morash, Gordon (4 August 1996). "Super sleuthing in Wild Rose Country; Suzanne North's success continues with second novel, Seeing Is Deceiving". Edmonton Journal.
  4. ^ Kelsey Rolfe (May 30, 2014). "Flying Time, by Suzanne North: Review". National Post. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
  5. ^ Elin Thordarson (April 1, 2014). "'Flying Time' by Suzanne North". Winnipeg Review. Retrieved 2015-02-25.
  6. ^ "Flying Time". Historical Novel Society.
  7. ^ David Skene-Melvin (2014). "Canadian Crime Writing in English". In Jeannette Sloniowski; Marilyn Rose (eds.). Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 41. ISBN 9781554589272.
  8. ^ Clemence, Verne (Jul 2, 1995). "Suzanne North; Part 2 of 3 Series: WRITERS TO WATCH". Edmonton Journal.