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Contemporary American Crime Fiction
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This highly accessible, lively and informative study gives a clear and comprehensive overview of recent trends in American crime fiction. Building on a discussion of the immediate predecessors, Bertens and D'haen focus on the work of popular and award-winning authors of the last fifteen years. Particular attention is given to writers who have reworked established conventions and explored new directions, especially women and those from ethnic minorities.
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- Cover
- Contents
- List of Writers and Detectives
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Old Guard in the mid-1990s: Muller, Grafton, and Paretsky
- 3 The Old Guard Continued: Kaminsky, Parker, and Block
- 4 The Personal and the Regional: New Forms of Authenticity in Female Crime Writing
- 5 Three Pictures from the Institution: Forrest, Barr, and Hightower
- 6 Los Angeles Police Department: Ellroy's and Connelly's Police Procedurals
- 7 Private Investigation in the 1990s
- 8 The 'English Tradition' in Contemporary American Crime Fiction
- 9 Historical Mysteries
- 10 In Waco's Wake: Patricia Cornwell and Mary Willis Walker
- 11 'Other' Detectives: the Emergence of Ethnic Crime Writing
- 12 Black Female Crime Writing
- 13 The Persistence of Gender: the Private Investigators of S.J. Rozan
- Primary Bibliography
- Select Secondary Bibliography
- Index