Serial Crime Fiction ― Dying for More

Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. As a whole the book argues that, far from being limited and repetitive, serial crime fiction exploits a seemingly infinite variety of permutations to explore major social issues. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, perceptions and marketing of the series, this book also offers lively and innovative readings of nineteenth to twenty-first century crime fiction from Argentina, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the USA. Authors studied include Conan Doyle, Dorothy Sayers, Sara Paretsky, David Peace, James Ellroy, Maurice Leblanc, Lisa Marklund, Andrea Camilleri, and Jorge Luis Borges, across print, film and television.

Jean Anderson is Associate Professor and Programme Director for French at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests are in late nineteenth century and contemporary women's writing, Francophone writing (Tahiti, Mauritius, Belgium), literary translation and crime fiction. She is the co-editor of The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations (2012).

Carolina Miranda lectures at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests include translation and twentieth century Latin American literature. She has published on Roberto Arlt's theatre and narrative work and also on Spanish, New Zealand and Argentine crime fiction. She has recently published The Foreign in International Crime Fiction (2012), co-edited with Jean Anderson and Barbara Pezzotti. She is a board member of The Australian Journal of Crime Fiction.

Barbara Pezzotti (PhD) is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS). She is the author of The Importance of Place in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction: A Bloody Journey (2012) and Politics and Society in Italian Crime Fiction: An Historical Overview (2014). She is co-editor of The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations (2012).