Contemporary American crime fiction

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Old Guard in the mid-1990s: Muller, Grafton, and Paretsky

Chapter 3 The Old Guard Continued: Kaminsky, Parker, and Block

Chapter 4 The Personal and the Regional: New Forms of Authenticity in Female Crime Writing

Chapter 5 Three Pictures from the Institution: Forrest, Barr, and Hightower

Chapter 6 Los Angeles Police Department: Ellroy’s and Connelly’s Police Procedurals

Chapter 7 Private Investigation in the 1990s

Chapter 8 The ‘English Tradition’ in Contemporary American Crime Fiction

Chapter 10 In Waco’s Wake: Patricia Cornwell and Mary Willis Walker

Chapter 11 ‘Other’ Detectives: the Emergence of Ethnic Crime Writing

Chapter 12 Black Female Crime Writing

Chapter 13 The Persistence of Gender: the Private Investigators of S.J. Rozan