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Martynuska, Małgorzata. "Karin Slaughter’s Crime Novel "Blindsighted" as a Southern Forensic Thriller." Tematy i Konteksty 18, no. 13 (2023): 412–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.15584/tik.2023.26.
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The forensic thriller has emerged as a significant subgenre of crime fiction that depicts the work of medical examiners, coroners, forensic pathologists, and anthropologists who analyze scientific evidence. Forensic investigators do not engage directly in pursuing the criminal; instead, they interpret the physical evidence collected from the victim's body and the crime scene. The popularity of forensic fiction, film, and TV series has created the general assumption that criminalistics has become a routine police procedure. This article presents Karin Slaughter's novel Blindsighted as an example of the Southern forensic thriller. The American writer Karin Slaughter is the author of crime stories and thrillers set in the American South. Her Grant County series consists of six crime novels, beginning with Blindsighted and followed by Kisscut, A Faint Cold Fear, Indelible, Faithless, and Beyond Reach. The essay introduces the main qualities of a forensic thriller and highlights the novel's generic characteristics. Then, Blindsighted is analyzed within the paradigm of Southern regional literature, with its distinctive qualities and religious imagery.
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Hall, James Allen. "Erotic Crime Thriller." Pleiades: Literature in Context 40, no. 2 (2020): 147–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/plc.2020.0117.
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Nikonenko, Olha, and Olena Rigger. "CULINARY THEMATICS IN DETECTIVES." Naukovì zapiski Nacìonalʹnogo unìversitetu «Ostrozʹka akademìâ». Serìâ «Fìlologìâ» 1, no. 9(77) (2020): 193–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.25264/2519-2558-2020-9(77)-193-195.
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The article is devoted to the consideration of genre of crime novels in contemporary German literature general and to those with a culinary theme especially. The using of the term “culinary thriller“ by authors and journalists is critically considered. There is a short overview of the development of the genre of crime novel, there important stages, the structure and characteristics in German literature. Discussed is the popularity of this genre in recent years. The thriller in the modern German literature are thematically qualified. Culinary and gourmet theme is a popular environment in the criminals of the modern German crime thriller authors. Culinary has a great place in the works of the crime genre and has various functions such as means of portraying the person’s manager, crime scene or means for a crime or murder, as a tool of subject’s development. Crime novels often have an educational function, informing the reader about the quality and production of gourmet products. Authors analyze the concept of the culinary crime novel are of the opinion that a culinary crime novel is only a novel when the culinary theme is the motive for the crime. The empirical research is based on the thrillers by writers from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxemburg. This allows an analyses of breadth and depth of the culinary content in the crime novels.
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Gallagher, Richard. "The Troubles crime thriller and the future of films about Northern Ireland." On the Cultural Circulation of Contemporary European Crime Cinema, no. 22 (March 2, 2022): 42–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.22.03.
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Troubles-based crime thrillers were once a staple of Hollywood cinema in the 1990s. However, these types of films have become something of a subgenre of European crime films in the last few decades given that films produced over the period have all been produced and financed by either the United Kingdom, Ireland, France or Germany. Owing to both the financial and critical success of these films, relative to other types of films about Northern Ireland, and the more market-driven approach adopted by policymakers, the crime thriller genre has also become the primary way that audiences engage with cinema about Northern Ireland. Although some encouraging developments have come with this transition away from, at times, exploitative Hollywood-produced films, continued reliance on genre in this new dispensation—specifically the crime thriller—is still a development that is not without problems. The type of films about the conflict produced today also contrasts significantly with those produced during the “first wave” of Irish cinema in the 1980s.
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Platten, David. "Wired to the Word: On Reading Thrillers." French Cultural Studies 21, no. 4 (2010): 267–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155810378573.
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The appearance in 2003 of 21 Georges Simenon novels in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade reaffirmed a widespread consensus that French-language crime fiction, especially the roman noir with its vigil over the political and social ills of the nation, had secured its position as an important vector of French cultural history. Its sister genre, the thriller, has fared less well. Justly criticised for its expedient style and limited intellectual horizons, the thriller continues to appeal to a mass readership drawn from all sectors of society.This article locates its attractions in the ways in which we might once have engaged with the adventure stories of our collective youth that furnished our first solitary contact with literary fiction. It argues that our response to narrative suspense in adventure stories consumed in early adolescence is later rekindled and developed in the more adult thrillers of the modern age. Working within a conceptual framework that includes the psychologically based thrillers of Boileau-Narcejac and Sébastian Japrisot juxtaposed with the adrenalin rush of events supplied by Dan Brown and Maxime Chattam, it analyses the different modalities of suspense and their concomitant reading pleasures, concluding that the thriller meets the expectations not of a certain group of readers but of a certain type of reading experience.
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Avanzas Álvarez, Elena. "Form and Diversity in American Crime Fiction:The Southern Forensic Thriller." Polish Journal for American Studies, no. 13 (Autumn 2019) (October 15, 2019): 309–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/pjas.13/2/2019.11.
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The forensic thriller has traditionally been constructed as a mainstream American narrative focused on the stereotypical representation of the country as a metropolis with an incredible amount of resources, and the American capitalist dream. The author Patricia Cornwell (Postmortem, first novel in the Kay Scarpetta series, published in 1990) is considered the founding mother of this crime fiction subgenre native to the US, closely followed by Kathy Reichs (Deja Dead, first novel in the Temperance Brennan series, published in 1997) whose series have been successfully adapted to television in the show Bones (2005-2017). But the 21st century has seen the inclusion of more diverse settings for these stories, the South being the most economically successful and dominated by women authors too. Georgian Karin Slaughter is the author of the “Grant County” series, set in the fictional town of Heartsdale, in rural Georgia, and responsible for the inscription of the South in American forensic thrillers thanks to her own experience as a native. Blindsighted (2001) includes elements from both the grotesque southern gothic and the hard boiled tradition. My analysis of the first novel in the series will examine how the southern environment becomes quintessential to the development of the crimes and the characters from a literary, philosophical and feminist point of view. The issues examined will include, but not be limited to crime, morals, religion, professional ambition, infidelity, divorce, sexual desire, infertility, and family relationships.
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Davies, Ann. "Can the contemporary crime thriller be Spanish?" Studies in European Cinema 2, no. 3 (2005): 173–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/seci.2.3.173/1.
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Ortega Martín, Diana. "The Economy of Murder: Capital, Crime, and Crisis in Peter Murphy’s and Rachael Moriarty’s Traders (2015)." Estudios Irlandeses, no. 18 (March 17, 2023): 184–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.24162/ei2023-11459.
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The abundance of contemporary Irish fiction dealing with crime seems hard to refute. While most works have been produced in the literary field, cinema has also explored Ireland’s contemporary situation through the lens of crime fiction. The aim of this article is to analyse the relationship between crime, crisis, and capital in a contemporary Irish thriller: Peter Murphy and Rachael Moriarty’s Traders (2015). The film creates a bleak and acidic depiction of Ireland’s financial world and how in times of crisis, crime and capital are negotiated and articulated. A brief introduction of what the Celtic Tiger era and its subsequent crisis meant for Ireland will be followed by an exploration of its relation to the crime thriller. By studying crime and its intersections with class structures, economic conditions, and the shaping of its space in the film, I will attempt to undertake an economic and aesthetic reading. Moreover, I will consider how the film delineates a portrait of Ireland’s post-Celtic Tiger society and all its consequences.
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Choi, Sungeun. "A Study on Ecocentrism in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead." East European and Balkan Institute 46, no. 2 (2022): 45–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.19170/eebs.2022.46.2.45.
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The novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (published in 2009) by Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, represents a totally different type of work for the author. It is a crime thriller which reveals both the perpetrator of the crime and the motive toward the end of the story. A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate.
 This study analyzes the theme of the novel and its ultimate message from the perspectives of ecocentrism and ecofeminism. Defined as a ‘moral thriller’ by the author herself, this novel presents a new paradigm in the relationship between humans and humans, as well as between humans and nature, in a contemporary society where humans destroy nature and the strong oppress the weak. Through the dramatic ending, which reveals the main character, Janina Duszejko to be a serial killer, Tokarczuk emphasizes that humans and nature are equal, and awakens people to the many kinds of violence, exploitation and cruelty which humans inflict on animals, and which she believes should be considered serious crimes.
 The reason that Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead has received such a positive response from readers and literary circles, despite its antinomic, controversial ending, is because it tells a story about a neglected being who empathizes with helpless, weak beings confronted with a violent reality, and offers them a helping hand.
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Svoboda, Manuela, and Petra Zagar-Sostaric. "How much Artistic Freedom is permitted when it comes to Language? - Analysis of a Crime Novel." European Journal of Social Science Education and Research 5, no. 2 (2018): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ejser-2018-0033.
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Abstract In this article a closer look will be taken at the issue of inaccurately using a foreign language, i.e. German in this particular case, in a crime novel or thriller. Of course, in fiction the author has complete artistic freedom to invent and present things as he/she intends and it doesn`t necessarily have to be realistic or legitimate. But what happens when it comes to an existing language being quoted in fiction? For this purpose David Thomas’ thriller “Blood Relative - How well do you know the one you love?” is analysed regarding parts in which German quotes are used. As the plot is located partly in England and partly in former East Germany (GDR) and the protagonist’s wife is of German origin, direct speech, titles and names are used in German. Subsequently, they are translated into English by the author in order to be understood by the English reader. However, there are many grammar, spelling and semantic mistakes in these German expressions and common small talk quotes. This begs the question, is it justified to disregard linguistic correctness with regards to artistic freedom given the fact that we are dealing with a fictional thriller, or is it nevertheless necessary to be precise concerning foreign language usage? How far may one “test” their artistic freedom in this particular case? In order to answer these questions a detailed analysis of the thriller is performed, concerning artistic freedom and modern literature/light fiction as well as the German language used in quotes and direct speech.