Lisa Downing is professor of French discourses of sexuality at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of numerous books, including Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature and The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault and coauthor of Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters.

"The Subject of Murder is an original, superbly researched, and important work that deserves a broad readership. It will be of interest to audiences from a wide range of disciplines, from French literature to cultural studies, sexuality studies, and queer studies; from popular culture to criminology and sociology. There has never been a book quite like it." (David Schmid, University at Buffalo, State University of New York)"

Lisa Downing is professor of French discourses of sexuality at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of numerous books, including Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature and The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault and coauthor of Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters.

"The Subject of Murder is an original, superbly researched, and important work that deserves a broad readership. It will be of interest to audiences from a wide range of disciplines, from French literature to cultural studies, sexuality studies, and queer studies; from popular culture to criminology and sociology. There has never been a book quite like it." (David Schmid, University at Buffalo, State University of New York)"