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Behind every crime novel there is a family. The author's, the hero's (or the heroine's), and that of the villains themselves. Some families organise themselves into crime syndicates, controlling drugs, prostitution and illegal gambling. Others are simply dysfunctional, tearing themselves apart, fathers against sons, mothers against daughters, sisters against brothers, husbands against wives. Not everyone escapes alive. However, families do not exist in a vacuum. They are an important part of our society—for many, one of its most essential building blocks. That being said, society itself can impinge disastrously on personal relationships. War, that greatest of crimes, leaves children bereft of parents. Generations of children are stolen by cynical, racist administrators in supposedly civilised countries. Religion requires its followers to flourish and multiply, while abandoning all—including family—for their faith. All of these issues and more are explored in this collection of essays about crime fiction and the family.

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Bill Phillips holds a BA in English from Lancaster University, UK, and a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He has been a Lecturer in English Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona since 1991. His main areas of speciality are poetry and crime fiction. His research interests began with poetry—particularly that of John Clare—which led to ecocriticism, ecofeminism, gender studies, crime fiction and postcolonial studies, on all of which he has published widely. From 2013 to 2017, he led a Spanish government-financed research project on postcolonial crime fiction. His latest publications have mainly been related to crime fiction including an ecocritical assessment of the HBO series True Detective, and a study of the surprising return of religious beliefs among some contemporary fictional detectives.

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