Review by: The Baltic Times
BOOK: Murder and muddled identity in post-Soviet Riga
By Rihards Kalnins, RIGA

Ilze Berzins’ fifth murder mystery, “Riga Mortis” (Albert Street Press, 2002), is the most recent English-language thriller to take place in Riga, and, along with William Safire’s “Sleeper Spy,” one of the only ones. But where Safire’s book lacks an intimate understanding of the city, Canadian-Latvian Berzins raises Riga to the level of a character in-and-of-itself. …Read the full post »

Ottawa Citizen
December 29, 2002
From Crime Scene
By Mike Gillespie

Other New Releases

Ottawa author/artist Ilze Berzins has a new, brooding mystery on the shelves. Riga Mortis (Albert Street Press; $24.95) is the fifth in a series of novels that has included Death in the Glebe and Revenge on the Rideau. …Read the full post »

Ottawa Citizen
January 13, 2002
From Crime Scene
By Mike Gillespie

Other new Releases

Ottawa is no slouch when it comes to lining the bookstores with good home-spun mysteries. Two new releases recently landed from city author Ilze Berzins and promising newcomer Brian Meech. …Read the full post »

Kinetic spaces: Author, artist and teacher Ilze Berzins fills her Glebe home with eclectic, affordable objects, from ivy to a stalking leopard.
Julia Elliott reports.

The Ottawa Citizen
Saturday, January 27, 2001
Page: G1 / FRONT
Section: Homes: Resale/Rental
Byline: Julia Elliott
Source: The Ottawa Citizen

For those who think it takes gobs of money to buy art, spend a few economical minutes in the singular surroundings of Ilze Berzins. …Read the full post »

OTTAWA Citizen
December 17, 2000
From Crime Scene
By Mike Gillespie

Other New Releases

In time for the holiday books season, Ottawa author Ilze Berzins has arrived back in the stores with a second murder mystery — Revenge on the Rideau (Albert Street Press, $20). …Read the full post »

Glebites find themselves in pages of a mystery: Ilze Berzins has recently written a murder mystery titled Death in the Glebe, set in the picturesque Ottawa neighbourhood she calls home. She describes the fun and mischief she’s stirred with her latest novel. …Read the full post »

Ottawa Citizen
February 27, 2000
From Crime Scene
By Mike Gillespie

Other New Releases

Giving the reader the slip is rooted in the trade when it comes to the whodunit. Agatha Christie and P.D. James have it down to a science. Ottawa author Ilze Berzins sticks to that convention with Death in the Glebe (Albert Street Press), her second novel. …Read the full post »