“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…
I have never understood what Francis Fukayama’s famous statement of “the end of history” meant until I went to the USA in 2012 in order to do my doctoral studies. After settling…
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…
Let’s imagine that you woke up in New Orleans today. The year is 1919 and the day is the 16th of March. It hasn’t been more than an hour since the sailors…
These are the first sentences that introduced readers from all over the world to Martin Beck. This July is the July of 1965. And at that time Martin Beck, who became commissar…
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…
