“A Belgian Mystery (Solved by Poirot Himself)” (By Hilde Vandermeeren)

“A Belgian Mystery (Solved by Poirot Himself)” (By Hilde Vandermeeren) | SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN: Hilde Vandermeeren, a psychologist and former teacher, had authored some forty books for children (winning numerous literary prizes for them) before she wrote her first crime novel, When Darkness Fell, in 2013—and it won the Hercule Poirot Public (or “Readers”) Award.  A second thriller, The Witnesses, followed in 2014, and a third, Quiet Ground, in May 2015. The author’s EQMM debut is coming soon, in our March/April 2016 double issue. In this post Hilde discusses some of the obstacles women writers face in the field of crime fiction in her native Belgium.—Janet Hutchings