1. In the Beginning Was the Crime In the last months of his life, Italian writer Andrea Camilleri reminded us, through the intense pages of his Autodifesa di Caino (Cain’s self-defense, 2019),…
What are the virtues of attaining late middle age in the early 21st century? Are there any? Well… for males, there’s better life expectancy than our fathers had — mine didn’t even…
“A New Crop of Mom Thrillers Taps Into Our Worst Fears” declared an essay by Jen Gann published in February 2018. I had been trolling for information about crime fiction from the…
In a famous essay, The Simple Art of Murder, published many years ago, Raymond Chandler characterized the classic, mostly British detective novel, the whodunit, as a form that has “learned nothing and…
Down These Green Streets is the witty title of a collection of writings on Irish crime fiction by one of Ireland’s leading crime writers, Declan Burke. Paying homage to Raymond Chandler and…
My greatest entertainment while growing up was watching Baretta and Columbo on a black and white TV towards the end of 1970s. These shows were the starting point of the career I…
In Sue Turnbull’s volume The TV Crime Drama, an entire chapter titled “Women and crime” is dedicated to the relationships between the genre and gender issues, and in particular the question of…
