This series will produce exciting, new understandings of crime fiction and crime fiction criticism in their national and international contexts and as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon. Offering studies of crime fiction in its broadest terms (including print fiction, graphic novels, TV serials, film, podcasts and more), the series aims to reflect what is a vibrant and burgeoning field of study, global in its scope, transmedial in its understanding of genre, and interdisciplinary in its method. It will encourage works that consider under-examined national traditions of crime fiction from around the world and puts these traditions in conversation with those ‘established’ accounts of crime fiction as genres, which have emerged from the likes of Britain, France, and the United States. Works published in the series will also think critically about crime’s respective traditions and explore the legacies and continuing effects of colonialism, racism, patriarchy, capitalism etc. and to interrogate crime fiction’s complex entanglements with the politics of race, gender, class, sexuality and religion in the contemporary.