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Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, and Andrew Pepper, editors. The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, and Andrew Pepper, editors. The Routledge Companion... Book Reviews from typical detective novels: Hector Torres’s Caracas Muerde (2012) is a collection of crónicas, and Muerte en el Guaire (2016) by Raquel Rivas Rojas is an epistolary novel. The crónicas provide a series of short scenes that individualize and personalize the crimes the citizens of Caracas suffer, from theft to death. The epistolary novel contains a series of letters between friends detailing the investigation by a mutual friend, the female detective. Both works reveal the multiple fissures in Venezuelan society and the complicity of corrupt state institutions, including the police. In a series of ten essays, Crime Scenes focuses on the scene of crime itself. The culprit of these crime scenes is the corrupt state and the negative consequences of that ingrained and accepted corruption. The ‘Introduction’ is an excellent overview of the origins and history of crime fiction in the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin American and would be of particular value to the reader new to the field. The ‘Bibliography’ at the end of each chapter provides further avenues of investigation, particularly for the bilingual reader, as much of the work on Latin American crime fiction is produced in Spanish. The essays offer helpful introductions to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Crime Fiction Studies Edinburgh University Press

Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, and Andrew Pepper, editors. The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

Heholt, Ruth
Crime Fiction Studies , Volume 3 (2): 3 – Sep 1, 2022
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Book Reviews from typical detective novels: Hector Torres’s Caracas Muerde (2012) is a collection of crónicas, and Muerte en el Guaire (2016) by Raquel Rivas Rojas is an epistolary novel. The crónicas provide a series of short scenes that individualize and personalize the crimes the citizens of Caracas suffer, from theft to death. The epistolary novel contains a series of letters between friends detailing the investigation by a mutual friend, the female detective. Both works reveal the multiple fissures in Venezuelan society and the complicity of corrupt state institutions, including the police. In a series of ten essays, Crime Scenes focuses on the scene of crime itself. The culprit of these crime scenes is the corrupt state and the negative consequences of that ingrained and accepted corruption. The ‘Introduction’ is an excellent overview of the origins and history of crime fiction in the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin American and would be of particular value to the reader new to the field. The ‘Bibliography’ at the end of each chapter provides further avenues of investigation, particularly for the bilingual reader, as much of the work on Latin American crime fiction is produced in Spanish. The essays offer helpful introductions to

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