Description
Book SynopsisIrish crime fiction, long present on international bestseller lists, has been knocking on the door of the academy for a decade. With a wide range of scholars addressing some of the most essential Irish detective writing,
Guilt Rules All confirms that this genre has arrived.
Trade ReviewReadable, stimulating and informative, this is a book that celebrates great Irish writing, much of which has never before been the subject of such in-depth scholarly attention. Offering 17 chapters on a huge variety of topics, the collection shows definitively that crime fiction has become one of Ireland’s most vital, creative and transformative modes of contemporary writing.
Guilt Rules All does an outstanding job of conveying the breadth of the genre that encompasses mystery, detective and crime fiction. An eclectic set of contributors—writers, scholars and aficionados— examine overarching themes in fresh and innovative ways.
Guilt Rules All explores the robust body of crime fiction produced in the Republic and Northern Ireland across decades. It offers important new perspectives with its attention to women writers, its impressive array of authors and texts, and its sophisticated readings that enrich our understanding not only of Irish crime fiction, but also of Irish writing more generally.”
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Antecedents and Beginnings
- 1. "Just One More Thing: Freeman Wills Crofts’s and the Inverted Mystery"
- 2. "Before the Tiger Roared: Bartholomew Gill’s Ireland"
- 3."‘Make us human’: Julie Parson’s Michael McLoughlin Trilogy"
- 4. "‘A land of shame, a land of murder and a land of strange, sacrificial women’: Representation of Wealth, Gender, and Race in Irish Language Crime Fiction in Irish"
- Historical Crime Fiction
- 5. "Hospitality and Surveillance: Imperial Crime in Conor Brady’s Victorian Dublin"
- 6. "How History Helps: Michael Russell’s Irish Thrillers"
- Novelists and Readers
- 7. "Ren Bryce: Hiding in Plain Sight"
- 8. "The Ties that Bind: Arlene Hunt’s QuicK Investigations"
- 9. "The Touch: Steve Cavanagh’s Eddie Flynn Series"
- Adapting Hard-Boiled Models
- 10. "Troubling the Genre: Declan Burke's Harry Rigby Novels"
- 11. "‘A Spanner in the Works’: Metaphysical Detection in Colin Bateman’s Dan Starkey Series"
- 12. "‘This Isn’t Fucking Miss Marple, Mate’: Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy"
- 13. "The Radical and the Unrepresentable in Gene Kerrigan’s Dublin Tetralogy"
- Domestic Noir
- 14. "Serial Domestic Noir: Louise Phillip’s Kate Pearson Series"
- 15. "Searching for the Missing, Haunted by the Troubles: Claire McGowan’s Paula Maguire"
- 16. "More than Domestic: Toward a Theory of Maternal Noir"
- 17. "Between the Lines: Liz Nugent’s Malignant Protagonists"
- Index
