Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology

Placing Crime Fiction and Ecology: An Introduction
Nathan Ashman

Part I: Space and Topography
1. Affect in Peter May’s Lewis and Harris Novels
Terry Gifford
2. "The Goshawk Did It": Nature Writing and Detection in Ann Cleeves’ The Crow Trap
Ian Kenny and Irina Souch
3. The Norfolk Saltmarsh: Elly Griffiths and Place in Contemporary Crime Fiction
Nicola Bishop
4. The Big Deep: The Ecological Turn in Nordic Noir
Michael Hinds and Tomas Buitendijk
5. Aesthetic Imaginaries of Nature and Nationhood in the Works of Arnaldur Indriðason
Priscilla Jolly
6. Unsettlement, Climate and Rural/Urban Place-Making in Australian Crime
Fiction
Rachel Fetherston

Part II: Bodies and Violence
7. Pest Control: "Wasp Season" in Agatha Christie’s "The Blue Geranium"
Alicia Carroll
8. Green Machinations: Unknown Poison, Ecology and Female Criminal Agency in L.T. Meade’s The Sorceress of the Strand
Caitlin Anderson
9. "Scorched Earth": Transgressive Bodies, Historic Criminality, and Colonial Recursions in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House
Malinda Hackett
10. "Animals Taking Revenge": Imagining Murder as an Ecological Encounter in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Andrew Yallop
11. Protecting the Rhinos and Our Young Democracy: Nature and the State in
Post-Apartheid South African Crime Fiction
Colette Guldimann
12. "Look at Mother Nature on the Run": ‘The Troubles’ in Adrian McKinty’s Sean
Duffy Novels
Bill Phillips
13. Environmental Crime and the Dialectics of Slow and Divine Violence in Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán
Rafael Andúgar

Part III: Epistemologies
14. "Holmes, that’s some Santa Claus shit": Reading Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible as Ecological Crime Fiction
MaKenzie Hope Munson and Kevin Andrew Spicer
15. John D. MacDonald and the Advent of Ecocrime Fiction
Kristopher Mecholsky
16. Choking to Death: True Crime and the Great Smog
Anita Lam
17. "Every Crime Has its Peculiar Odor": Detection, Deodorization and Intoxication
Hsuan Hsu
18. In Paolo Bacigalupi’s Environmental Science Fiction, Immoral and Criminal are not Synonymous
Patrick D. Murphy
19. From Crime Scene to Anthropocene in 2010s Argentinian Narrative
David Conlon
20. Ecologemes in Contemporary Australian Crime Fiction: The Case of Outback Noir
Katrin Althans

Part IV: Criminality and Justice
21. Revising Crime in Fiction: An Environmental Invitation
Marta Puxan-Oliva
22. Criminal Violences: The Continuum of Settler Colonialism and Climate Crisis in Recent Indigenous Fiction
Rebecca Tillett
23. Environmental Racism and Post-Katrina Crime Fiction
Ruth Hawthorn
24. Seeking Environmental Justice: Muti in South African Crime Fiction
Felicity Hand
25. A Form of Wild Justice: Carl Hiaasen’s Deployment of Carnivalesque Environmental Ethics and Moral Technology
Anna Kirsch
26. Environmental Concerns in Carl Hiaasen’s Crime Fiction
David Geherin
27. New Energy, Old Crime: Forms of Individual and Collective Responsibility in Nordic Crimes Series
Leonardo Nolé

Part V: Energy, Globality and Circulation
28. "It Tasted Like Gasoline": The American Roman Noir and the Oil Encounter in Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel (1953)
Nathan Ashman
29. Oil and the Hardboiled: Petromobility, Settler Colonialism and the Legacy of the American Century in Thomas King’s Cold Skies
Alec Follett
30. "The Whole World…Was a Gigantic Prison": Climate Crisis and Carceral
Capitalism in Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room
Megan Cole
31. Reading Donna Leon as Mediterranean Noir
Valerie McGuire
32. The Circulation of Global Environmental Concerns: Local and International Perspectives in the Verdenero Collection and Donna Leon’s Crime Fiction
Aina Vidal-Pérez
33. Magic Seeds and The Living Dead: Investigating Transnational Eco-Crimes in Rajat Chaudhuri’s The Butterfly Effect
Damini Ray