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The Mom Thriller: A New Subgenre Explores the Trials of Motherhood

“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 mother’s perspective to help shed light on my approach to three suspense novels by Argentine author Claudia Piñeiro that featured mothers who had…

The Evolving Detective in Television & Cinema

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 forgotten nothing.”  In a limited sense, he was entirely correct, though of course he was also arguing in favor of the kind of…

Exclusive Interview: Hans Rosenfeldt

We are thrilled to finally have the opportunity to interview Hans Rosenfeldt, the creator of Saga Norén and the screenwriter behind the series Bron/Broen (The Bridge) and Marcella. In our conversation, we discussed the impact of Saga Norén on female characters in contemporary crime genre, as well as his work in both television and literature.…

Irish Crime Fiction

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 American hardboiled fiction, the title also stakes a claim for Ireland’s now leading position in global crime fiction. Though that fiction seemed to…

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