Vancouver Noir

From Kirkus Reviews -- "Despite its rainy weather, Vancouver has a sunny disposition: diverse, optimistic, welcoming. But editor Wiebe maintains that it has its share of urban troubles: poverty, drugs, violence. Gentrification may make Vancouver’s crime look a little less gritty, but it’s just as corrosive, as Timothy Taylor’s “Saturna Island” and Robin Spano’s “The Perfect Playgroup” prove.  Vancouver’s crime is also equal-opportunity. Women get their share of the action in Linda L. Richards’ “Terminal City” and R.M. Greenaway’s “The Threshold,” although the line between male domination and female empowerment can blur, as Don English reveals in “Stitches.” "