Crime Novel or Generic Hybrid? The Intimate Side of Evil in Todo é silencio by Manuel Rivas by María Xesús Lama López

“…Manuel Rivas’ contribution to crime fiction analyzes drug trafficking and the social and political corruption associated with it from a peculiarly intimate perspective. …”
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Students' Age at which EFL is Introduced in Schools and Educational Outcomes by Chuzaimah Dahlan Diem

“…The author examines how lawyers are represented in US popular culture, specifically exploring presentations in legal and crime fiction. She also analyzes results from a survey of 100 Russian students, exploring their perceptions of the lingual-cultural type of US lawyers.…”
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El relato policial según Angélica Gorodischer / The Police Report in Angélica Gorodischer’s Terms by Mónica Zapata

“…Gorodischer - relato policial - feminismo - posmodernismo - género Keywords: A. Gorodischer - crime fiction - feminism - postmodernism - gender …”
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Melodrama, Identity, and Community in Forbrydelsen by Ilaria A. De Pascalis

“…The mingling of genres (melodrama and noir, sensational and crime fiction, and so on) produces a complex narrative that revolves around the wounded body and psyche of the female detective. …”
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Le détournement du genre policier sur la scène anglaise contemporaine : One Minute (2003) de Simon Stephens et Orphans (2009) de Dennis Kelly by Aloysia Rousseau

“…The whodunit is the only recurring expression in common critical vocabulary used to refer to the transposition of crime fiction to the stage, an obsolete expression which is obviously not a satisfying one when applied to contemporary detective plays such as Simon Stephens’ One Minute (2003) and Dennis Kelly’s Orphans (2009). …”
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Russian Perceptions of U.S. Lawyers as a Lingual-Cultural Type by Evgenia Gulyaeva

“…The author examines how lawyers are repre-sented in US popular culture, specifically exploring presentations in legal and crime fiction. She also analyzes results from a survey of 100 Russian students, exploring their perceptions of the lingual-cultural type of US lawyers…”
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RUSSIAN PERCEPTIONS OF U.S. LAWYERS AS A LINGUAL-CULTURAL TYPE by Evgenia Gulyaeva

“…The author examines how lawyers are repre-sented in US popular culture, specifically exploring presentations in legal and crime fiction. She also analyzes results from a survey of 100 Russian students, exploring their perceptions of the lingual-cultural type of US lawyers.…”
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The Art of Political Murder de Francisco Goldman y el policial de no-ficción entre Estados Unidos y Guatemala by Andrea Pezzé

“…This essay analyses the use of crime fiction in Francisco Goldman’s reportage The Art of Political Murder, and the contribution this makes to political change in the recent history of Guatemala. …”
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De Quincey’s acoustemology by Ian Stevenson

“…The historical development of notions of effect contemporary to de Quincey is explored, and the parallels between his use of sound and subsequent sonic design in crime fiction and the development of audiovisual drama in general are considered. …”
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The Genre of Islands: Popular Fiction and Performative Geographies by Ralph Crane, Lisa Fletcher

“…This article uses critical snapshots of Anglophone island-set crime fiction and popular romance fiction to show the meta-geographical potential of popular novels as they both depict and reflect on islands as performative geographies, or spaces that make and unmake individual and social identities.…”
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Structures of Authority: Post-war Masculinity and the British Police by Gill Plain

“…Characterised by open endings and a disturbing level of violence, these novels demonstrate a significant transition in the representation of the police in British crime fiction, suggesting that the 1950s procedural was not a source of reassurance, but a textual space that recognised and negotiated the pressures of a changing society.…”
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Till My Change Come: Nature, Justice, and Redemption in Åsa Larsson’s Until Thy Wrath Be Past by John Lingard

“…With her skilful interweaving of mystery, nature, and the supernatural, Larsson has created a powerful and moving addition to Nordic crime fiction. …”
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The Autistic Detective: Sherlock Holmes and his Legacy by Sonya Freeman Loftis

“…Emulating Conan Doyle's famous tales, contemporary crime fiction frequently creates detective characters with autistic characteristics. …”
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Is There such a Thing as a Hungarian Nordic Noir? by Sándor Kálai, Anna Keszeg

“…An investigation of the paratexts of these cultural products sheds light on the main idea behind the creation of those different mediatic appropriations: in Hungary, a market where the crime genre has had, and still has, a difficult and discontinuous affirmation, adopting the label of a globally successful (sub)genre may help crime fiction through its process of cultural institutionalization. …”
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Sémiotique judiciaire : crime et signe by Marcel Danesi

“…The connection between forensic science and crime fiction continues to this day. This merger can be called forensic semiotics, which aims to study the connection between real crime, fictional crime, and the sign systems involved in both. …”
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Female Dicks. Gender and genre in Bolognese literary serials by Ellen Nerenberg

“…In honor of Luigi Bernardi ten years after his death, this essay explores one of the most important of the author-editor’s areas of research, crime fiction. Where the rich and recent scholarship on the subject has favored a more transmedial approach, I here focus on the literary text, specifically three series of novels set in and around Bologna with female detectives: the series by Carlo Lucarelli with protagonist police inspector Grazia Negro, the series by Grazia Verasani featuring the private detective Giorgia Cantini, and two recent novels in a projected trilogy by Lorella Marini whose protagonist is Commissaria Barbara Larsen Givoni. …”
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Nordic Noir from Within and Beyond: Negotiating geopolitical regionalisation through SVoD crime narratives by Hansen Kim Toft

“…The three largest contemporary commercial players on the Nordic market – Viaplay, HBO, and Netflix – have been able to, in very different ways, tap into the ideology of banal Nordism and the geopolitical unity of the Nordic region, and they have done so by producing and acquiring content that has deep associations with one of the Nordic region's main international brands: Scandinavian crime fiction and Nordic Noir.…”
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Portrayals of child and adolescent psychiatry in mass fiction: focusing on Stieg Larsson’s complete works by Nicholas Pang

“…Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” crime fiction series is an absorbing one; however, the portrayal of child and forensic psychiatry in the trilogy is sensationalised and demonised, and compares poorly to the less paternalistic, more holistic, and more pedagogical-driven methods employed by contemporary child and adolescent services. …”
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“There Are Many Kinds of Justice”: Confessing Growing Up an Indian Legal Subject in Louise Erdrich’s 'The Round House' by Cornelia Vlaicu

“…An autobiographical story that can be read as a “postcolonial Bildungsroman” (Nayar), The Round House uses crime fiction as a pretext for writing Indian sovereignty. …”
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Dialogues with Tradition: Feminist-Queer Encounters in German Crime Stories at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century by Faye Stewart

“…This article investigates the ways in which each volume negotiates the gendered conventions of crime fiction and its subcategories, feminist and queer crime. …”
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