Local Author: Bruno Lombardi
By Alex Binkley Ottawa author Bruno Lombardi displays a quiet wit and an appreciation for the odd and quirky. It’s the same when you chat...
Welcome to ORB's September Issue!
In the Ottawa Review of Books' back-to-school issue, our core team of reviewers offer their take on two emerging crime writers, Geri...
Quite Perfectly Dead by Geri Newell Gillen
Reviewed by Gerry Fostaty Geri Newell Gillen’s new crime novel, Quite Perfectly Dead takes us back and forth between Las Vegas and...
Vantage Point by Patricia Filteau
Reviewed by Alex Binkley Ottawa author Patricia Filteau has set an ambitious timetable for her first three Kate Roarty, P.I. novels,...
Independence by Cecil Foster
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann When Barbados wins its independence from Britain in 1966, Christopher is about to turn fourteen. He lives...
What’s Left Behind by Gail Bowen
Reviewed by Jim Napier The latest in the popular Regina-based crime series, What’s Left Behind finds Joanne and her husband Zack happily...
The Motorcyclist by George Elliott Clarke
Reviewed by Timothy Niedermann Carl is Apollo negro, black in Halifax in the furious fifties. Astride his R69 BMW motorcycle, he cruises...
The June Issue of ORB is Now Out!
In the June issue of the Ottawa Review of Books, our core team of reviewers offer their take on four great Canadian authors: Steven...