This book explores the three aspects of deviance that contemporary crime fiction manipulates: linguistic, social, and generic. Gregoriou conducts case studies into crime series by James Patterson, Michael Connelly and Patricia Cornwell, and investigates the way in which these novelists correspondingly challenge those aforementioned conventions.

About the Author
CHRISTIANA GREGORIOU is currently a Lecturer in English Language at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of English Literary Stylistics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and has published several articles on deviance in crime fiction.

Reviews

Shortlisted for Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards 2008 (Category: Critical/Biographical)

Shortlisted for the Anthony Award for Best Critical Work of 2007

'Connecting the threads of textuality, context, theme and significance, this is a masterful account of crime fiction, and it stands as a model for the expansive, smart, multidisciplined and integrated literary scholarship that the future demands.' - Peter Stockwell, Professor of Literary Linguistics, University of Nottingham, UK

Awards
Short-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Best Critical/Biographical 2008.



Book Information
ISBN 9780230003392
Author C. Gregoriou
Format Hardback
Page Count 178
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan