With its focus on recent detective series featuring female investigators, this collection analyzes the authors’ treatment of current social, political and eco

Focuses on women's crime writing from Spain and offers an approach to Spanish crime fiction, combining literary criticism with sociological and criminological t

Crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s has been successful in shifting attention to crimes often overlooked by their mal

This collection of essays expands our understanding and appreciation of the body of work by established female authors of Spanish crime fiction series by analyz

Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector