Description: New essays by leading scholars examining today's vibrant and innovative German crime fiction, along with its historical background.
Brief description: Sascha Andreas Gerhards is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH
Review Quotes: Opens up both the foreign view of German-language crime literature and the cultural self-descriptions to which [that literature] gives rise. . . . [Also] contains contributions on crime literature 'by women for women, ' on feminist crime literature . . . .--Nele Hoffmann "ARBITRIUM"