catsalive (Australia) (2012/08/10): cover: Australia's foremost women writers of crime fiction become the imaginative readers of their own genre in this landmark critical study. The conventions of crime fiction - and the rewriting of those conventions - are the central themes in this work that examines issues of femininity and criminality: womane and violence; political correctness and private investigators... Presenting wide-ranging perspectives on Australian crime writing, this collection explores questions of women in crime fiction and women writers of crime fiction, providing provocative comparisons to women's crime fiction in Britain and America.
Introduction by Delys Bird and Brenda Walker Killing Women by Claire McNab Reliable Pleasures: rewriting (crime fiction) by Jan McKemmish Phryne Fisher by Kerry Greenwood Equal Writes by Finola Moorhead Ain't Misbehavin' by Susan Geason 'Bitch City' by Marele Day
