Scènes de crimes
Enquêtes sur le roman policier contemporain
(Crime Scenes: Studies on Contemporary Crime Novels)
 Illustration : Laurine Spehner |
You like crime novels.
You read Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, and Conan Doyle and
his famous Sherlock Holmes. You are an ardent reader of Ellroy
and Mankel, Chrystine Brouillet and Mary Higgins Clark. Okay. But faced with the hundreds of new titles that appear each year on bookstore shelves, you hesitate : how can you be sure to find a new author who will satisfy your expectations, how can you find the one book that will keep you reading breathlessly for hours, whose plot will stay with you long after the last page has been turned ? Yes, booksellers give good advice, but they can hardly be expected to read everything ! This is the first instalment in a series intended to present a descriptive, analytical and critical overview of crime novels as we enter the 21st century. Both a reading guide, and a thematic and critical analysis, the eight chapters of Scènes de crimes successively explore various facets of the genre, various "crime scenes" : essential components and sub-genres (police procedural, thriller, mystery, suspense), Canadian geography (Quebec and English-Canadian crime novels), and thematic aspects (women writers, crime novels and war, crime novels and western fiction). With dozens of authors, comments on more than two hundred novels by an aficionado of the genre (who doesn't spoil any endings, of course !), this book has something to delight any fan of crime fiction, providing hours and hours of captivating reading ! |
| Norbert
Spehner Scènes de crimes 278 pages, $22.95 |
