Nathan Ashman is Lecturer in Crime Writing at the University of East Anglia and the author of James Ellroy and Voyeur Fiction (2018). His research spans the fields of crime fiction, contemporary American fiction, and ecocriticism, with a particular specialism in the works of James Ellroy. He has published articles on numerous writers including Ross Macdonald, E.C. Bentley, Don DeLillo,Megan Abbott and Walter Mosley. His second book, James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, is forthcoming.

Placing Crime Fiction and Ecology: An Introduction

Nathan Ashman

Part I: Space and Topography

1. Affect in Peter May's Lewis and Harris Novels

Terry Gifford

2. "The Goshawk Did It": Nature Writing and Detection in Ann Cleeves'

The Crow Trap

Ian Kenny and Irina Souch

3. The Norfolk Saltmarsh: Elly Griffiths and Place in Contemporary Crime Fiction

Nicola Bishop

4. The Big Deep: The Ecological Turn in Nordic Noir

Michael Hinds and Tomas Buitendijk

5. Aesthetic Imaginaries of Nature and Nationhood in the Works of Arnaldur

Indriðason

Priscilla Jolly

6. Unsettlement, Climate and Rural/Urban Place-Making in Australian Crime

Fiction

Rachel Fetherston

Part II: Bodies and Violence

7. Pest Control: "Wasp Season" in Agatha Christie's "The Blue Geranium"

Alicia Carroll

8. Green Machinations: Unknown Poison, Ecology and Female Criminal Agency in

L.T. Meade's The Sorceress of the Strand

Caitlin Anderson

9. "Scorched Earth": Transgressive Bodies, Historic Criminality, and Colonial

Recursions in Louise Erdrich's The Round House

Malinda Hackett

10. "Animals Taking Revenge": Imagining Murder as an Ecological Encounter in

Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Andrew Yallop

11. Protecting the Rhinos and Our Young Democracy: Nature and the State in

Post-Apartheid South African Crime Fiction

Colette Guldimann

12. "Look at Mother Nature on the Run": 'The Troubles' in Adrian McKinty's Sean

Duffy Novels

Bill Phillips

13. Environmental Crime and the Dialectics of Slow and Divine Violence in

Poso Wells by Gabriela Alemán

Rafael Andúgar

Part III: Epistemologies

14. "Holmes, that's some Santa Claus shit": Reading Lydia Millet's A Children's

Bible as Ecological Crime Fiction

MaKenzie Hope Munson and Kevin Andrew Spicer

15. John D. MacDonald and the Advent of Ecocrime Fiction

Kristopher Mecholsky

16. Choking to Death: True Crime and the Great Smog

Anita Lam

17. "Every Crime Has its Peculiar Odor": Detection, Deodorization and Intoxication

Hsuan Hsu

18. In Paolo Bacigalupi's Environmental Science Fiction, Immoral and Criminal are

not Synonymous

Patrick D. Murphy

19. From Crime Scene to Anthropocene in 2010s Argentinian Narrative

David Conlon

20. Ecologemes in Contemporary Australian Crime Fiction: The Case of Outback

Noir

Katrin Althans

Part IV: Criminality and Justice

21. Revising Crime in Fiction: An Environmental Invitation

Marta Puxan-Oliva

22. Criminal Violences: The Continuum of Settler Colonialism and Climate

Crisis in Recent Indigenous Fiction

Rebecca Tillett

23. Environmental Racism and Post-Katrina Crime Fiction

Ruth Hawthorn

24. Seeking Environmental Justice: Muti in South African Crime Fiction

Felicity Hand

25. A Form of Wild Justice: Carl Hiaasen's Deployment of Carnivalesque

Environmental Ethics and Moral Technology

Anna Kirsch

26. Environmental Concerns in Carl Hiaasen's Crime Fiction

David Geherin

27. New Energy, Old Crime: Forms of Individual and Collective Responsibility

in Nordic Crimes Series

Leonardo Nolé

Part V: Energy, Globality and Circulation

28. "It Tasted Like Gasoline": The American Roman Noir and the Oil Encounter

in Elliott Chaze's Black Wings Has My Angel (1953)

Nathan Ashman

29. Oil and the Hardboiled: Petromobility, Settler Colonialism and the Legacy

of the American Century in Thomas King's Cold Skies

Alec Follett

30. "The Whole World...Was a Gigantic Prison": Climate Crisis and Carceral

Capitalism in Rachel Kushner's The Mars Room

Megan Cole

31. Reading Donna Leon as Mediterranean Noir

Valerie McGuire

32. The Circulation of Global Environmental Concerns: Local and International

Perspectives in the Verdenero Collection and Donna Leon's Crime Fiction

Aina Vidal-Pérez

33. Magic Seeds and The Living Dead: Investigating Transnational Eco-Crimes

in Rajat Chaudhuri's The Butterfly Effect

Damini Ray

The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is the first comprehensive examination of crime fiction and ecocriticism. Across 33 innovative chapters from leading international scholars, this Handbook considers an emergent field of contemporary crime narratives that are actively responding to a diverse assemblage of global environmental concerns, whilst also opening up 'classic' crime fictions and writers to new ecocritical perspectives. Rigorously engaged with cutting-edge critical trends, it places the familiar staples of crime fiction scholarship - from thematic to formal approaches - in conversation with a number of urgent ecological theories and ideas, covering subjects such as environmental security, environmental justice, slow violence, ecofeminism and animal studies. The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology is an essential introduction to this new and dynamic research field for both students and scholars alike.