Seeing as I am now one of the directors of a small Canadian crime-writing festival, I have been reading some recent Canadian crime writing: C.B. Forrest's Slow Recoil, which is a good attempt to work the legacy of the Balkan conflicts into a contemporary Toronto-based murder mystery; and, Howard Shrier's hardboiled and really rather excellent new series, starting with Buffalo Jump. On the cover, it gets praise from the creator of Law and Order, and I can see it being made into a quality mini-series. Recommended.