Deviance in Contemporary Crime Fiction

by Christiana Gregoriou

This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these novelists correspondingly challenge those aforementioned conventions.

189 pages, Hardcover

First published January 30, 2007

Reviews

[Helen Turnock · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting to see how long a phd actually is