21st-Century Crime: Fiction

The “subterranean night beneath the world”: a review of Sean Cregan’s The Levels and Steve Mosby’s Still Bleeding

“‘Not guilty?’ ‘We all are’”: The Politics of Contemporary Policing in David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet, by Katy Shaw

The Queens of Noir: Crimeculture recommends the novels of Vicki Hendricks, Megan Abbott and Christa Faust, Lee Horsley, extract from 'Literary Noir in the Twenty-First Century," The Noir Thriller

Reader, I Marinated Him: A Taste of Tart Noir:  Lee Horsley, conference paper, Lancaster University's 'The Twenty-First Century Novel: Reading and Writing Contemporary Fiction', 2-3 September 2005

"Cold, damp, nothing zones": the mean streets of the Midlands: Reviews of Ray Banks and John Dalton

Cities of the Damned: Literary Noir in the Twenty-First Century:  Reviews of Charlotte Carter, Jason Starr, Charlie Stella, Kevin Wignall, Charlie Williams and Allan Guthrie  

Word Made Flesh and Brotherhood of Mutilation: Neddal Ayad recommends Jack O'Connell and Brian Evenson

Italian Noir:  Massimo Carlotto and Gianrico Carofiglio, reviewed by Glenn Harper

Scandinavian Noir:  Karin Fossum, Åke Edwardson, Helen Tursten, Arnaldur Indridason, Liza Marklund, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, reviewed by Glenn Harper

Los Angeles:  Neddal Ayad reviews Peter Moore Smith

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