Description: A collection of original essays drawing on crime fiction and film to explore the implications of how we choose to represent crime to ourselves. >
Brief description: Bran Nicol is Reader in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His books include Stalking (Reaktion, 2006), Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction (2e, Palgrave, 2004) and The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction (forthcoming).
Review Quotes: This exciting collection of essays discusses a wide variety of subjects including film noir, violence and gender, crime fictions, the hit man, and true crime under the heading of 'crime culture, ' a concept that is both original and thought-provoking. This cutting-edge volume is essential reading for anyone interested in crime narratives.--Sanford Lakoff