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Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Dream homes, women on the edge, murder - we've been here before, says Sharon Wheeler

Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century Crime Fiction

Edited by Laura Joyce and Henry Sutton

Palgrave Macmillan, 312pp, £88.00

ISBN 9783319693378

Published 23 May 2018

You may feel that you'll foam at the mouth if you see the word "girl" in another book title. Stieg Larsson has a lot to answer for. Not that we can blame him for the current crop of "domestic noir", as his tattooed protagonist never had to worry about whether hubby was acting bizarrely or whether they were right to move to a very big house in the country. If you have yet to come across domestic noir, let me give you a rather cynical definition of it, from a long-suffering crime fiction reviewer's point of view: it's paranoid women, dodgy blokes and brattish kids whose search for the dream life and the wonder house is inevitably derailed by murder.

Laura Joyce and Henry Sutton's edited collection is subtitled "the new face of 21st century crime fiction". Julia...