Crime fiction first emerged in the Victorian era and its series form continues to dominate the genre. This Element analyses exemplary series and a range of subgenres.  Meer

Crime fiction first emerged in the Victorian era and its series form continues to dominate the genre. This Element analyses exemplary series and a range of subgenres.  Meer

This study of forensic crime fiction from the US and the UK examines the prominent roles that women play in many of these novels, arguing that there are historical continuities with earlier forms of contact with the dead body.  Meer

This Element provides an analysis of digital mystery game narratives through the lens of game studies approaches, game design principles, and literary theory.  Meer

This study explores the relationship between crime fiction and adoption. A primary goal of this study is to investigate how the adoption trope reveals current cultural fears and fascination with kinship formations and essentialist notions of belonging, DNA and ancestry searches, and the controversial practice of adoption.  Meer

This Element will explore the ethics and efficacy of anger in female-centered crime fiction from its first stirrings in the 19th century through second wave feminism's angry, individualist heroes until today's current explosion of women who reject respectability and justification.  Meer

This Element examines how contemporary ecological crime narratives are responding to the scales and complexities of the global climate crisis. It seeks to uncover examples of world crime fictions that are cultivating new forms of environmental awareness through textual strategies capable of conceiving of the planet as a whole.  Meer

This Element will explore the ethics and efficacy of anger in female-centered crime fiction from its first stirrings in the 19th century through second wave feminism's angry, individualist heroes until today's current explosion of women who reject respectability and justification.  Meer

This Element provides an analysis of digital mystery game narratives through the lens of game studies approaches, game design principles, and literary theory.  Meer

This study of forensic crime fiction from the US and the UK examines the prominent roles that women play in many of these novels, arguing that there are historical continuities with earlier forms of contact with the dead body.  Meer

This Element examines how contemporary ecological crime narratives are responding to the scales and complexities of the global climate crisis. It seeks to uncover examples of world crime fictions that are cultivating new forms of environmental awareness through textual strategies capable of conceiving of the planet as a whole.  Meer

This study explores the relationship between crime fiction and adoption. A primary goal of this study is to investigate how the adoption trope reveals current cultural fears and fascination with kinship formations and essentialist notions of belonging, DNA and ancestry searches, and the controversial practice of adoption.  Meer