Introduction: New directions in crime fiction scholarship / Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King and Andrew Pepper -- Genre / Jesper Gulddal and Stewart King -- Counterhistories and prehistories / Maurizio Ascari -- The crime fiction series / Ruth Mayer -- Crime fiction in the marketplace / Emmett Stinson -- Adaptations / Neil McCaw -- Hybridisation / Heather Duerre Humann -- Graphic crime novels / Robert Prickett and Casey A. Cothran -- World literature / Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen -- Translation / Karen Seago and Victoria Lei -- Transnationality / Barbara Pezzotti -- Gender and sexuality / Gill Plain -- Race and ethnicity / Sam Naidu -- Coloniality and decoloniality / Shampa Roy -- Psychoanalysis / Heta Pyrhönen -- Murders / Michael Harris-Peyton -- Victims / Rebecca Mills -- Detectives / David Geherin -- Criminals / Christiana Gregoriou -- Beginnings and Endings / Alistair Rolls -- Plotting / Martin Edwards -- Clues / Jesper Gulddal -- Realism / Paul Cobley -- Place / Stewart King -- Time and space / Thomas Heise -- Self-referentiality and metafiction / J. C. Bernthal -- Paratextuality / Louise Nilsson -- Affect / Christopher Breu -- Alterity and the other / Jean Anderson -- Digital technology / Nicole Kenley -- Crime fiction and criminology / Matthew Levay -- Crime fiction and theories of justice / Susanna Lee -- Crime fiction and modern science / Andrea Goulet -- Crime fiction and the police / Andrew Nestingen -- Crime fiction and memory / Kate M. Quinn -- Crime fiction and trauma / Cynthia S. Hamilton -- Crime fiction and politics / José V. Saval -- Crime fiction and the city / Eric Sandberg -- Crime fiction and war / Patrick Deer -- Crime fiction and global Capital / Andrew Pepper -- Crime fiction and the environment / Marta Puxan-Oliva -- Crime fiction and narcotics / Andrew Pepper -- Crime fiction and migration / Charlotte Beyer -- Crime fiction and authoritarianism / Carlos Uxó -- Crime fiction and digital media / Tanja Välisalo, Maarit Piipponen, Helen Mäntymäki and Aino-Kaisa Koistinen -- Crime fiction and the future / Nicoletta Vallorani.