9 September 2019
If crime fiction reflects society, what can books published during wartime tell us about ourselves? Historical events obviously help shape our society and form our sense of cultural identity, and crime fiction is one mechanism for people to reflect upon that identity. While writing my own mystery series-set during the Second World War-I became interested in what crime fiction published in the 1940s had to say about a nation's view of the war and their role in that struggle as well as the larger world.
