This book examines the recent expansion of Ireland's literary
tradition to include home-grown crime fiction. It surveys the wave
of books that use genre structures to explore specifically Irish
issues such as the Troubles and the rise and fall of the Celtic
Tiger, as well as Irish experiences of human trafficking, the
supernatural, abortion, and civic corruption. These novels are as
likely to address the national regulation of sexuality through
institutions like the Magdalen Laundries as they are to follow
serial killers through the American South or to trace international
corporate conspiracies. This study includes chapters on Northern
Irish crime fiction, novels set in the Republic, women
protagonists, and transnational themes, and discusses Irish
authors' adaptations of a well-loved genre and their effect on
assumptions about the nature of Irish literature. It is a book for
readers of crime fiction and Irish literature alike, illuminating
the fertile intersections of the two.
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