- Description
- V, 207 pages ; 23 cm
- Notes
- Contents: Introduction: the new female investigator -- Dorothy Uhnak and the trauma of change -- Linda Fairstein: language and the law -- Kathy Reichs: the female forensic gaze -- Australian police officers and fiction as therapy -- Conclusion: professional authors in the crime fiction genre.Includes bibliographical references and index.Summary: "There is a new category of authors blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction: women who have worked in criminal justice--lawyers, police officers, forensic investigators--who publish crime fiction with characters that resemble real-life counterparts. These writers present compelling, insider portrayals of inequality and dysfunction in criminal justice systems from a feminist viewpoint"
