Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology

Nathan Ashman is Lecturer in Crime Writing at the University of East Anglia and the author of James Ellroy and Voyeur Fiction (2018). His research spans the fields of crime fiction, contemporary American fiction, and ecocriticism, with a particular specialism in the works of James Ellroy. He has published articles on numerous writers including Ross Macdonald, E.C. Bentley, Don DeLillo,Megan Abbott and Walter Mosley. His second book, James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, is forthcoming.

• Placing Crime Fiction and Ecology: An IntroductionNathan AshmanPart I: Space and Topography Affect in Peter May’s Lewis and Harris NovelsTerry Gifford "The Goshawk Did It": Nature Writing and Detection in Ann Cleeves’The Crow Trap Ian Kenny and Irina Souch The Norfolk Saltmarsh: Elly Griffiths and Place in Contemporary Crime FictionNicola Bishop The Big Deep: The Ecological Turn in Nordic NoirMichael Hinds and Tomas Buitendijk Aesthetic Imaginaries of Nature and Nationhood in the Works of ArnaldurIndriðasonPriscilla Jolly Unsettlement, Climate and Rural/Urban Place-Making in Australian CrimeFictionRachel FetherstonPart II: Bodies and Violence Pest Control: "Wasp Season" in Agatha Christie’s "The Blue Geranium"Alicia Carroll Green Machinations: Unknown Poison, Ecology and Female Criminal Agency inL.T. Meade’s The Sorceress of the StrandCaitlin Anderson "Scorched Earth": Transgressive Bodies, Historic Criminality, and ColonialRecursions in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House Malinda Hackett "Animals Taking Revenge": Imagining Murder as an Ecological Encounter inOlga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the DeadAndrew Yallop Protecting the Rhinos and Our Young Democracy: Nature and the State inPost-Apartheid South African Crime FictionColette Guldimann "Look at Mother Nature on the Run": ‘The Troubles’ in Adrian McKinty’s Sean Duffy NovelsBill Phillips Environmental Crime and the Dialectics of Slow and Divine Violence inPoso Wells by Gabriela AlemánRafael AndúgarPart III: Epistemologies "Holmes, that’s some Santa Claus shit": Reading Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible as Ecological Crime FictionMaKenzie Hope Munson and Kevin Andrew Spicer John D. MacDonald and the Advent of Ecocrime FictionKristopher Mecholsky Choking to Death: True Crime and the Great SmogAnita Lam "Every Crime Has its Peculiar Odor": Detection, Deodorization and Intoxication Hsuan Hsu In Paolo Bacigalupi’s Environmental Science Fiction, Immoral and Criminal arenot SynonymousPatrick D. Murphy From Crime Scene to Anthropocene in 2010s Argentinian NarrativeDavid Conlon Ecologemes in Contemporary Australian Crime Fiction: The Case of Outback NoirKatrin AlthansPart IV: Criminality and Justice Revising Crime in Fiction: An Environmental Invitation Marta Puxan-Oliva Criminal Violences: The Continuum of Settler Colonialism and Climate Crisis in Recent Indigenous FictionRebecca Tillett Environmental Racism and Post-Katrina Crime FictionRuth Hawthorn Seeking Environmental Justice: Muti in South African Crime FictionFelicity Hand A Form of Wild Justice: Carl Hiaasen’s Deployment of CarnivalesqueEnvironmental Ethics and Moral TechnologyAnna Kirsch Environmental Concerns in Carl Hiaasen’s Crime FictionDavid Geherin New Energy, Old Crime: Forms of Individual and Collective Responsibilityin Nordic Crimes SeriesLeonardo NoléPart V: Energy, Globality and Circulation "It Tasted Like Gasoline": The American Roman Noir and the Oil Encounter in Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel (1953)Nathan Ashman Oil and the Hardboiled: Petromobility, Settler Colonialism and the Legacy of the American Century in Thomas King’s Cold SkiesAlec Follett "The Whole World…Was a Gigantic Prison": Climate Crisis and Carceral Capitalism in Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room Megan Cole Reading Donna Leon as Mediterranean NoirValerie McGuire The Circulation of Global Environmental Concerns: Local and InternationalPerspectives in the Verdenero Collection and Donna Leon’s Crime FictionAina Vidal-Pérez Magic Seeds and The Living Dead: Investigating Transnational Eco-Crimes in Rajat Chaudhuri’s The Butterfly EffectDamini Ray