By Elizabeth Mannion
Irish detective fiction has loved a global readership for over a decade, showing on best-seller lists around the globe. yet its breadth of hard-boiled and beginner detectives, ancient fiction, and police procedurals has remained a bit of marginalized in educational scholarship. Exploring the paintings of a few of its best writers—including Peter Tremayne, John Connolly, Declan Hughes, Ken Bruen, Brian McGilloway, Stuart Neville, Tana French, Jane Casey, and Benjamin Black—The modern Irish Detective Novel opens new floor in Irish literary feedback and style reports. It considers the detective genre’s place in Irish reports and the status of Irish authors in the detective novel tradition.
Contributors: Carol Baraniuk, Nancy Marck Cantwell, Brian Cliff, Fiona Coffey, Charlotte J. Headrick, Andrew Kincaid, Audrey McNamara, and Shirley Peterson.
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