Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Andrew Pepper is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the author of The Contemporary American Crime Novel (2000) and Unwilling Executioner: Crime Fiction and the State (2016). He has also written five crime novels set in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland including The Last Days of Newgate.David Schmid is Associate Professor of English at the University of Buffalo, USA. He is the author of Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture (2005), the co-author of Zombie Talk: Culture, History, Politics (2015), and the editor of Violence in American Popular Culture (2015).

• Introduction; Andrew Pepper and David Schmid.- Chapter 1. The Bad and the Evil; David Schmid.- Chapter 2. Work and Death in the Global City; Christopher Breu.- Chapter 3. ‘Local Hells’ and State Crimes; Katy Shaw.- Chapter 4. The State We’re In; Véronique Desnain.- Chapter 5. The Scene of the Crime is the Crime; Casey Shoop.- Chapter 6. True-Crime, Crime Fiction, and Journalism in Mexico; Persephone Braham.- Chaopter 7. The Novel of Violence in Latin American Literature; José-Vicente Tavares-dos-Santos, Enio Passiani, and Julio Souto Salom.- Chapter 8. Scandinavian Crime Fiction and the Facts; Andrew Nestingen.- Chapter 9. John le Carré and The New Novel of Global (In)security; Andrew Pepper.- Chapter 10. Geopolitical Reality;Paul Cobley.- Chapter 11. US Narratives of Nuclear Terrorism; David Seed.