Deze serie duikt in de duistere en spannende werelden van misdaadfictie die heel Europa bestrijken. Het biedt een kijkje in diverse stijlen en tradities van het detectivegenre, van Scandinavische noir tot Mediterrane thrillers. Elk deel presenteert een uniek onderzoek dat lezers naar het hart van de misdaad en de daders leidt. De serie is ideaal voor liefhebbers van spanning die de variatie en diepgang van Europese misdaadliteratuur waarderen.
Italian Crime Fiction is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian detective and noir fiction from the 1930s to the present. The eight chapters include studies on some of the founding fathers of the Italian tradition, and mainstream writers. The volume has a particular focus on the new generation of crime writers.
This is a chapter from Crime Fiction in German: Der Krimi, edited by Katharina Hall. It is the first volume in English to offer a comprehensive overview of German-language crime narratives from the nineteenth century to the new millennium. It introduces readers to crime novels from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the former East Germany, and examines under-researched areas such as Nazi crime fiction, Turkish-German crime fiction and the Afrika-Krimi.