Carla Banks and Margaret Murphy are both highly respected writers of crime fiction. In Changing Crime Carla Banks explores where the genre is going, the influences that might dictate new developments and who the new queens and kings of the crime novel will be. Margaret Murphy offers a wonderful overview of the cream of the current crop of crime writing.

Malcolm Pryce is an innovate and bold writer who writes humorous adventures featuring the private detective Louie Knight. Here he explores his own complicated feelings towards the genre. Lauren Henderson has enthralled readers with her cool heroine Sam Jones and discusses the meaning of tart noir and the sassy women who feature in contemporary crime fiction.

Stella Duffy’s series of novels featuring the irrepressible Saz Martin are adventurous and bold. She also writes intriguing fiction, marketed as straight literary fiction. Here she discusses the differences between the forms she is working in. Meanwhile Denise Mina, a writer of extraordinary depth and insight, explores the politics of writing a British crime novel.