Serial Crime Fiction selected for prestigious award
Editors Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda and Barbara Pezzotti are happy to announce that their last volume, Serial Crime Fiction: Dying for More (Palgrave 2015), has been listed for the HRF Keating Award. Awarded by CRIMEFEST, one of the biggest crime fiction events in Europe, the prize recognises the outstanding contribution that biographies or critical books related to crime fiction make to the genre.
Serial Crime Fiction is the first book to focus explicitly on the complexities of crime fiction seriality. Covering definitions and development of the serial form, implications of the setting, and marketing of the series, it studies authors such as Doyle, Sayers, Paretsky, Ellroy, Marklund, Camilleri, Borges, across print, film and television.