11 July 2016
From Raymond Chandler's mean streets to Lee Child's hardboiled tales of revenge, crime fiction has often been the preserve of lone men battling betrayal and seeking justice. In recent years, though, the genre has changed with the rise of the "domestic suspense" novel - the many "Girl" books with their unreliable narrators, creeping sense of unease, twisting plots and sly insistence that the home isn't a haven but rather a place where anything and everything can go wrong.