Shiver Me Timbers: A Little Murder with My Fall
From Helen Walsh, author of new novel PULL FOCUS: Autumn’s long shadows cut across the darkening sky. A director frames a close-up shot of a woman in an armchair clutching a book, legs curled up beneath her, half-drunk glass of Pinot Noir on the side table. The crackle of the fire makes her jump, as her eyes dart from the page out the bare window, and back again. What lurks outside? Waits upstairs? Under the bed, perhaps. . . Is there anything more delicious than a chill up the spine as nights grow longer and shadows lurk? Here are 10 Canadian novels full of crackling tension that crowd my beside table or will soon, once their publication date arrives.
