Transnational Crime Fiction: Mobility, Borders and Detection

By Maarit Piipponen

Book Overview

Chapter 1: From Mobile Crimes to Crimes of Mobility

Maarit Piipponen, Helen M?ntym?ki and Marinella Rodi-Risberg

PART 1: Crime on the Move: Transnational Crime and Global Capitalism

Chapter 2: Transnational Crime in Deon Meyer's Devil's Peak and Santiago Gamboa's Night Prayers

Sam Naidu

Chapter 3: Temporal, (Trans)national and Human Mobility in Mar?a In?s Krimer's Kosher Trilogy

Carolina Miranda

Chapter 4: Abdelilah Hamdouchi's Whitefly: Transnational Crime, Globalisation and the Arabic Police Procedural

Colette Guldimann

Chapter 5: Systemic Violence in the Borderlands: Anthony J. Quinn's Border Angels and Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood

Eoin D. McCarney

Chapter 6: Transnational Female Sex Trafficking in Naia Marie Aidt's "Women in Copenhagen," Matt Johnson's Deadly Game, and Stuart Neville's Stolen Souls

Charlotte Beyer

PART 2: Historicising Mobility and Agency

Chapter 7: The Socially Mobile Female in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Mysteries

Meghan P. Nolan

Chapter 8: Liminal Spaces in Laurie R. King's Touchstone and Keeping Watch

Mary Ann Gillies

Chapter 9: Urban Mobility and Technology in Carlo Lucarelli's Almost Blue

Barbara Pezzotti

Chapter 10: Crime and Detection in a Virtually Mobile World: Tom Hillenbrand's Drohnenland

Heike Henderson

PART 3: Genre Borderlands: Generic Mobility and Hybridisation

Chapter 11: Criminal/Liminal/Seminal: Nordic Border Crossings and Crossers in Contemporary Geopolitical Television

Robert A. Saunders

Chapter 12: Across National, Cultural and Ethnic Borders: The Detectives in Olivier Truc's Reindeer Police Series

Andrea Hynynen

Chapter 13: Splatter Horror Crime: Crossing Medial Borders in Jo Nesb 's The Snowman

Niklas Salmose

Chapter 14: Affective Estrangement and Ecological Destruction in TV Crime Series Fortitude

Aino-Kaisa Koistinen and Helen M?ntym?ki

Chapter 15: Sophie Hannah's Hurting Distance as Crime Trauma Fiction

Marinella Rodi-Risberg

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030534154
• ISBN13: 9783030534158
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"