International Crime Fiction Association
@intcrimeficassoc.bsky.social
International #interdisciplinary network of #crime #academics, #researchers and practitioners.
Upcoming events: #CapCrim13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation.
Bamberg, Germany. 25-27 June '26
https://sites.google.com/view/icfa/home
Upcoming events: #CapCrim13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation.
Bamberg, Germany. 25-27 June '26
https://sites.google.com/view/icfa/home
#OpenAccess Article of the Week: Marcus Richey's 'Lacan, Shadow Feminism, and Paul Auster’s City of Glass'. ➡️ buff.ly/q7tBFnB.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
#OpenAccess Article of the Week: Marcus Richey's 'Lacan, Shadow Feminism, and Paul Auster’s City of Glass'. ➡️ buff.ly/q7tBFnB.
#BOTW: Karin Fossum's When the Devil Holds the Candle (1998) follows teenage friends Andreas and Zipp. After they rob a young mother, Andreas proposes robbing Irma, an elderly woman. Zipp refuses, but Andreas proceeds alone.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
#BOTW: Karin Fossum's When the Devil Holds the Candle (1998) follows teenage friends Andreas and Zipp. After they rob a young mother, Andreas proposes robbing Irma, an elderly woman. Zipp refuses, but Andreas proceeds alone.
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🎉Happy Birthday to #WilliamMcIlvanney, #bornonthisday in 1936. He's a renowned Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet, known as the “godfather of Tartan Noir” for his gritty crime fiction. His 1975 novel Docherty and Laidlaw revolutionised the genre. #CrimeFiction
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🎉Happy Birthday to #WilliamMcIlvanney, #bornonthisday in 1936. He's a renowned Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet, known as the “godfather of Tartan Noir” for his gritty crime fiction. His 1975 novel Docherty and Laidlaw revolutionised the genre. #CrimeFiction
Due to unforeseen circumstances, tomorrow's seminar is cancelled. Monash's Crime Fiction Project's Team will try to reschedule it at a suitable time.
We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause!
We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause!
On behalf of the Monash Crime Fiction Project, we would like to invite you to their second November seminar, presented by Dr Carlos Uxó (Monash University): "Communist Crime Fiction”.
📆 26th Nov. 2025
👥 💻 20 Chancellors Walk, Room S701 OR online.
🕑 4-5pm (Melbourne time)
Zoom: buff.ly/p2dAr0h
📆 26th Nov. 2025
👥 💻 20 Chancellors Walk, Room S701 OR online.
🕑 4-5pm (Melbourne time)
Zoom: buff.ly/p2dAr0h
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Due to unforeseen circumstances, tomorrow's seminar is cancelled. Monash's Crime Fiction Project's Team will try to reschedule it at a suitable time.
We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause!
We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause!
On behalf of the Monash Crime Fiction Project, we would like to invite you to their second November seminar, presented by Dr Carlos Uxó (Monash University): "Communist Crime Fiction”.
📆 26th Nov. 2025
👥 💻 20 Chancellors Walk, Room S701 OR online.
🕑 4-5pm (Melbourne time)
Zoom: buff.ly/p2dAr0h
📆 26th Nov. 2025
👥 💻 20 Chancellors Walk, Room S701 OR online.
🕑 4-5pm (Melbourne time)
Zoom: buff.ly/p2dAr0h
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 AM
On behalf of the Monash Crime Fiction Project, we would like to invite you to their second November seminar, presented by Dr Carlos Uxó (Monash University): "Communist Crime Fiction”.
📆 26th Nov. 2025
👥 💻 20 Chancellors Walk, Room S701 OR online.
🕑 4-5pm (Melbourne time)
Zoom: buff.ly/p2dAr0h
📆 26th Nov. 2025
👥 💻 20 Chancellors Walk, Room S701 OR online.
🕑 4-5pm (Melbourne time)
Zoom: buff.ly/p2dAr0h
In today’s article: “A sea of islands, a sea of crime: island crime fiction in the Aegean Sea”, Ralph Crane explores ideas of ‘#islandness’ in English-language #crime fction with a particular focus on the functions of non-textual #paratext. ➡️ bit.ly/4qG655g.
A Sea of Islands, a Sea of Crime: Island Crime Fiction in the Aegean Sea | Published in Island Studies Journal
By Ralph Crane. Geocriticism and spatial literary studies are used to explore the ways non-textual paratext—in particular covers and maps—work alongside a text, or narrative, to capitalize on the…
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November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
In today’s article: “A sea of islands, a sea of crime: island crime fiction in the Aegean Sea”, Ralph Crane explores ideas of ‘#islandness’ in English-language #crime fction with a particular focus on the functions of non-textual #paratext. ➡️ bit.ly/4qG655g.
This week’s #BOTW is Sophie White’s Where I End (2022). In this terrifying, yet gripping Gothic horror tale, a young woman–Aoileann–must care for her mother, who is bedridden until at night, when nobody is looking, she unexplainably moves through the house.
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This week’s #BOTW is Sophie White’s Where I End (2022). In this terrifying, yet gripping Gothic horror tale, a young woman–Aoileann–must care for her mother, who is bedridden until at night, when nobody is looking, she unexplainably moves through the house.
November 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
⭐ ECR Monthly Check-In ⭐
Join us on Nov. 29th, 7pm-8pm (CEST) for our monthly check-in! In this session, we chat all things research, PhD, conferences, CfPs, and much more!
Join our Discord server here: buff.ly/riaENwi
Join us on Nov. 29th, 7pm-8pm (CEST) for our monthly check-in! In this session, we chat all things research, PhD, conferences, CfPs, and much more!
Join our Discord server here: buff.ly/riaENwi
November 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
⭐ ECR Monthly Check-In ⭐
Join us on Nov. 29th, 7pm-8pm (CEST) for our monthly check-in! In this session, we chat all things research, PhD, conferences, CfPs, and much more!
Join our Discord server here: buff.ly/riaENwi
Join us on Nov. 29th, 7pm-8pm (CEST) for our monthly check-in! In this session, we chat all things research, PhD, conferences, CfPs, and much more!
Join our Discord server here: buff.ly/riaENwi
#OpenAccess article: “Detecting Disability: Moving beyond metaphor in the #crimefiction of #JeffreyDeaver” by Jakubowicz & Meekosha shows how Deaver’s #LincolnRhyme reframes disability from metaphor to identity, revealing tensions between intellect, embodiment, and heroism. buff.ly/spphusN.
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#OpenAccess article: “Detecting Disability: Moving beyond metaphor in the #crimefiction of #JeffreyDeaver” by Jakubowicz & Meekosha shows how Deaver’s #LincolnRhyme reframes disability from metaphor to identity, revealing tensions between intellect, embodiment, and heroism. buff.ly/spphusN.
Call for Crime Fiction Studies Contributions!
The Editorial Board of Crime Fiction Studies would like to invite you to submit an expanded version of your Captivating Criminality 12 conference for possible publication in the journal. To be considered for 7.2, submit by Dec. 12 2025!
The Editorial Board of Crime Fiction Studies would like to invite you to submit an expanded version of your Captivating Criminality 12 conference for possible publication in the journal. To be considered for 7.2, submit by Dec. 12 2025!
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Call for Crime Fiction Studies Contributions!
The Editorial Board of Crime Fiction Studies would like to invite you to submit an expanded version of your Captivating Criminality 12 conference for possible publication in the journal. To be considered for 7.2, submit by Dec. 12 2025!
The Editorial Board of Crime Fiction Studies would like to invite you to submit an expanded version of your Captivating Criminality 12 conference for possible publication in the journal. To be considered for 7.2, submit by Dec. 12 2025!
#BOTW: In M. L. Rio’s Graveyard Shift (2024), five graveyard workers in a quiet college town walk among the tombstones until they uncover a grave that shouldn’t exist. Their investigation pulls them into secrets, strange science, and sudden violence — a moody, gothic spin on #crimefiction.
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
#BOTW: In M. L. Rio’s Graveyard Shift (2024), five graveyard workers in a quiet college town walk among the tombstones until they uncover a grave that shouldn’t exist. Their investigation pulls them into secrets, strange science, and sudden violence — a moody, gothic spin on #crimefiction.
🎉Happy Birthday to #PatriciaWentworth (Dora Amy Elles), #bornonthisday in 1877. A master of British mystery, she created detective Miss Silver. With over 70 novels, including historical romances, her debut, A Marriage Under the Terror (1910), won the Melrose Prize. #CrimeFiction
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
🎉Happy Birthday to #PatriciaWentworth (Dora Amy Elles), #bornonthisday in 1877. A master of British mystery, she created detective Miss Silver. With over 70 novels, including historical romances, her debut, A Marriage Under the Terror (1910), won the Melrose Prize. #CrimeFiction
On behalf of the Monash Crime Fiction Project, it's our pleasure to invite you to their next seminar, presented by Dr Eleanore Gardner & Dr Fiona Wade (Charles Sturt Uni.): "Trends or Tropes? Representations of Domestic Violence in Australian Crime Fiction”.
📆 12th Nov.
🕓 4pm - 5pm (AEST)
💻 Zoom
📆 12th Nov.
🕓 4pm - 5pm (AEST)
💻 Zoom
November 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
On behalf of the Monash Crime Fiction Project, it's our pleasure to invite you to their next seminar, presented by Dr Eleanore Gardner & Dr Fiona Wade (Charles Sturt Uni.): "Trends or Tropes? Representations of Domestic Violence in Australian Crime Fiction”.
📆 12th Nov.
🕓 4pm - 5pm (AEST)
💻 Zoom
📆 12th Nov.
🕓 4pm - 5pm (AEST)
💻 Zoom
#CapCrim13 #Cfp Reminder!
🔎Captivating Criminality 13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation 🔍
📍 Bamberg, Germany
📆 25th - 27th June 2026
👥 In person
✍️ Abstract deadline: 15th Jan. 2026
sites.google.com/view/icfa/co...
🔎Captivating Criminality 13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation 🔍
📍 Bamberg, Germany
📆 25th - 27th June 2026
👥 In person
✍️ Abstract deadline: 15th Jan. 2026
sites.google.com/view/icfa/co...
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
#CapCrim13 #Cfp Reminder!
🔎Captivating Criminality 13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation 🔍
📍 Bamberg, Germany
📆 25th - 27th June 2026
👥 In person
✍️ Abstract deadline: 15th Jan. 2026
sites.google.com/view/icfa/co...
🔎Captivating Criminality 13: Crime Fiction, Conflict, and Representation 🔍
📍 Bamberg, Germany
📆 25th - 27th June 2026
👥 In person
✍️ Abstract deadline: 15th Jan. 2026
sites.google.com/view/icfa/co...
Our #OpenAccess #AOTW examines #IanRankin’s #TheLieFactory, showing how Rankin integrates #RoryGallagher’s #songlyrics to expand the #hardboiled narrative. It highlights a unique blend of #bluesmusic and #crimefiction. buff.ly/Ro6AiGP.
Hardboiled Blues: Exploring Ian Rankin's ‘Novel’ Approach to the Music of Rory Gallagher
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November 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Our #OpenAccess #AOTW examines #IanRankin’s #TheLieFactory, showing how Rankin integrates #RoryGallagher’s #songlyrics to expand the #hardboiled narrative. It highlights a unique blend of #bluesmusic and #crimefiction. buff.ly/Ro6AiGP.
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On 9 November, come to the Torquay Museum for Crime at the Coast, a day of author panels, book signings, and a Q&A with forensic experts! Tickets and information at buff.ly/5FZekTQ
November 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
On 9 November, come to the Torquay Museum for Crime at the Coast, a day of author panels, book signings, and a Q&A with forensic experts! Tickets and information at buff.ly/5FZekTQ
🚨#CallForPapers Reminder🚨
For our #VirtualCrime and #Detection themed issue of #CrimeFictionStudies to be published in March 2027, our guest editors would like to invite you to submit your abstracts!
Deadline: 15 Dec. 2025
Please submit your abstract to crimefictionstudies@gmail.com.
For our #VirtualCrime and #Detection themed issue of #CrimeFictionStudies to be published in March 2027, our guest editors would like to invite you to submit your abstracts!
Deadline: 15 Dec. 2025
Please submit your abstract to crimefictionstudies@gmail.com.
November 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🚨#CallForPapers Reminder🚨
For our #VirtualCrime and #Detection themed issue of #CrimeFictionStudies to be published in March 2027, our guest editors would like to invite you to submit your abstracts!
Deadline: 15 Dec. 2025
Please submit your abstract to crimefictionstudies@gmail.com.
For our #VirtualCrime and #Detection themed issue of #CrimeFictionStudies to be published in March 2027, our guest editors would like to invite you to submit your abstracts!
Deadline: 15 Dec. 2025
Please submit your abstract to crimefictionstudies@gmail.com.
🎉Happy Birthday to #PhilipMacDonald, #bornonthisday in 1900. Known for his "whodunnit" mysteries, including the Anthony Gethryn novels (e.g The Rasp), he was also a screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and won the Edgar Award twice for Best Short Story. #CrimeFiction
November 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
🎉Happy Birthday to #PhilipMacDonald, #bornonthisday in 1900. Known for his "whodunnit" mysteries, including the Anthony Gethryn novels (e.g The Rasp), he was also a screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock Presents and won the Edgar Award twice for Best Short Story. #CrimeFiction
Waking up on a cold morgue slab wasn’t the end for Jet Mason — it was the start. As Halloween looms, she must piece together the night she “died” and uncover who wanted her gone. Every second counts in Holly Jackson’s Not Quite Dead Yet (2025), our #BOTW, perfect for the spooky season.
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Waking up on a cold morgue slab wasn’t the end for Jet Mason — it was the start. As Halloween looms, she must piece together the night she “died” and uncover who wanted her gone. Every second counts in Holly Jackson’s Not Quite Dead Yet (2025), our #BOTW, perfect for the spooky season.
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🔍✨ New post alert! Detective History in 10 Objects – a fascinating dive into the everyday tools used by early police detectives to develop their sleuthing skills🕵️♂️
👉 Read it here: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/detective-...
#History #Victoriandetectives #ObjectsThatTellStories
👉 Read it here: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/detective-...
#History #Victoriandetectives #ObjectsThatTellStories
Detective history in 10 objects
The everyday tools of Victorian and Edwardian investigators
drangelabuckley.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🔍✨ New post alert! Detective History in 10 Objects – a fascinating dive into the everyday tools used by early police detectives to develop their sleuthing skills🕵️♂️
👉 Read it here: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/detective-...
#History #Victoriandetectives #ObjectsThatTellStories
👉 Read it here: drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/detective-...
#History #Victoriandetectives #ObjectsThatTellStories
#OpenAccess Article of the Week: "Crime Fiction and Black Criminality" by Theodore Martin buff.ly/aQBJm5J
October 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#OpenAccess Article of the Week: "Crime Fiction and Black Criminality" by Theodore Martin buff.ly/aQBJm5J
🎉 Happy Birthday to #LeeChild, #bornonthisday in 1954! He is known for his bestselling #JackReacher series about the former military police major. Child has won the Anthony, Barry Awards, and the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger for his crime fiction. #CrimeFiction
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
🎉 Happy Birthday to #LeeChild, #bornonthisday in 1954! He is known for his bestselling #JackReacher series about the former military police major. Child has won the Anthony, Barry Awards, and the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger for his crime fiction. #CrimeFiction
#BOTW: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1970) by George V. Higgins marks his first entry into the literary world. At the time, Higgins was serving as an Assistant United States Attorney in Boston. This novel offers an authentic portrayal of the Irish-American criminal scene in Boston.
October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#BOTW: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1970) by George V. Higgins marks his first entry into the literary world. At the time, Higgins was serving as an Assistant United States Attorney in Boston. This novel offers an authentic portrayal of the Irish-American criminal scene in Boston.
Today’s #OpenAccess article is “The Subterranean in Crime Fiction: Examining #Edinburgh’s Underground in #IanRankin’s John #Rebus Novels” wherein Ian R. Cook examines what underground settings in Rankin’s novels reveal about injustices of urban life. ➡️ bit.ly/470zEpi.
The subterranean in crime fiction: examining Edinburgh’s underground in Ian Rankin’s John Rebus novels
Given the prominence of subterranean settings and imagery within crime fiction, this article critically examines the genre’s representation of the subterranean. Influenced by scholarly work on the ...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Today’s #OpenAccess article is “The Subterranean in Crime Fiction: Examining #Edinburgh’s Underground in #IanRankin’s John #Rebus Novels” wherein Ian R. Cook examines what underground settings in Rankin’s novels reveal about injustices of urban life. ➡️ bit.ly/470zEpi.