Table of Contents

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

1 Margaret Atwood and the Crime Fiction Genre

2 Surfacing: The Detective Murder Mystery

3 Bodily Harm: The Game of Clue and the Spy Thriller

4 Alias Grace: The Cold Case and the Doomed Detective

5 The Blind Assassin: Conspiracy and Confession

6 Payback and Selected Fiction: Reckoning, Redress, Retribution

7 The Metafictive Detective Story

8 Margaret Atwood and Post-Colonial Crime Fiction

Conclusion

About the Author

Jackie Shead received her PhD in English Literature from the University of Bristol. She has lectured at colleges in Exeter and Bristol and has published many articles in The English Review.

Reviews

"In engaging closely with themes and story structure, Shead’s is a valuable contribution, to scholarship on crime fiction, and also on Atwood. She crucially draws, out the importance of language too, a close analysis of which is needed for a fuller, appreciation of the experience of reading such novels." - Christiana Gregoriou, University of Leeds, UK