Small towns in recent American crime fiction
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Small towns in recent American crime fiction
McFarland, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-184) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Small-town settings have long been commonplace in crime and mystery fiction, but usually only in cozy mysteries. Typically, the crimes in these novels were solved by amateur sleuths like Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, whose efforts restored peace and tranquilly to the quiet community. But in recent years, writers of realistic crime fiction about cops, private eyes, and county sheriffs who might ordinarily have set their novels in big cities have discovered fresh creative possibilities in small-town locations.
This shift from the mean streets of the city to Main Street allows these authors to take advantage of many of the distinctive features of small-town life - a sense of community, a slower pace of life, proximity to nature - and yet still deal with meaningful social, economic, and environmental issues. Because crimes that occur in small communities also often have a greater personal impact on the local population, the human element that is often lost in novels set in urban settings where crime is a more common occurrence can be emphasized even more forcefully.
This book introduces readers to ten notable contemporary authors who have placed small towns like Rocksburg, Pennsylvania (K. C. Constantine), West Table, Missouri (Daniel Woodrell), Niniltna, Alaska (Dana Stabenow), Aurora, Minnesota (William Kent Krueger), Paradise, Michigan (Steve Hamilton), Millersburg, Ohio (P. L. Gaus), Heartsdale, Georgia (Karin Slaughter), Millers Kill, New York (Julia Spencer-Fleming), Durant, Wyoming (Craig Johnson), and a variety of America's National Parks (Nevada Barr) on the map of the contemporary American crime novel.
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Table of Contents
Preface delete 1
Introduction delete 3
1. K. C. Constantine delete 11
2. Daniel Woodrell delete 27
3. Dana Stabenow delete 46
4. Nevada Barr delete 62
5. William Kent Krueger delete 80
6. Steve Hamilton delete 98
7. P. L. Gaus delete 114
8. Karin Slaughter delete 127
9. Julia Spencer-Fleming delete 142
10. Craig Johnson delete 160
11. Additional Readings delete 176
Bibliography delete 179
Index delete 185
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