The 'Killer Women' Writers Collective Is Turning the Page on Sexist Crime Novels | Broadly

Welcome to London's first crime writing festival, organized by all-female writing collective Killer Women. The group started a few years ago as a way for writers to combat the loneliness that comes from the isolation of fiction writing, and has grown into something much bigger since: a 16-strong group of writers, with The Girl on the Train bestselling novelist Paula Hawkins among them. Statistically, books by men are more likely to get reviewed, but women dominate crime fiction. Of the hundreds of people I see at Killer Women's event, less than ten are men. Women buy 80 percent of the 21 billion crime books sold every year. We outnumber both male writers and readers in the genre, lapping up books about serial killers, rape, and psychological torment.