Fiction
Crimeculture’s Fiction Reviews, 2010-12
Lauren Randall’s Review of Paul Johnston’s The Silver Stain
Penzler and Deutsch (ed and intro), The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories
Gruesser (ed), A Century of Detection: Twenty Great Mystery Stories, 1841-1940
“Ways to make a fast buck”: Lynn Kostoff’s Late Rain and Charlie Stella’s Johnny Porno
“Dreaming their big dreams”: the American Nightmares of Megan Abbott and Vicki Hendricks
“The terror of the truth”: the Gothic Noir of Cathi Unsworth and Martyn Waites
Archive of Crimeculture’s Fiction Reviews, 2005-2009
“‘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