Renée W. Craig-Odders is a professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. The author of several articles and books on Spanish detective fiction, she lives in Plover, Wisconsin. Jacky Collins is a senior lecturer in Spanish Studies at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. She lives in the United Kingdom.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionRenée W. Craig-Odders      1. Detecting 1979 Barcelona: The Cases versus the Context in El misterio de la cripta embrujada, Los mares del Sur, and A la vejez navajazosKalen R. Oswald      2. Barcelona: “La gran novela negra” in Francisco González Ledesma’s Inspector Méndez SeriesRenée W. Craig-Odders      3. Barcelona Through the Tourist’s Gaze: The 1992 Olympics as a Pseudo-Event in Two Novels by Manuel Vázquez MontalbánMichelle Dumais      4. There’s No Place Like Homelessness in Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s Un barco cargado de arrozNina L. Molinaro      5. After Eden: Images of the Garden in Alicia Giménez-Bartlett’s Petra Delicado SeriesMarcie Paul      6. “This Town Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us (?)”: Regional and Social Tensions in Two Novels by Lola van Guardia/Isabel FrancJacky Collins      7. Spanish Crime Fiction and Madrid: Moving Up, Looking BackDavid Knutson      8. Remembering Madrid in the Fiction of Joaquín Leguina and Arturo Pérez-ReverteAnne L. Walsh      9. Urban Renewal and Mobbing Inmobilario in Andreu Martín’s El blues de la semana más negraTiffany Gagliardi Trotman      10. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Regional and Cultural Illiteracy in Two of Jorge Martínez Reverte’s Gálvez Series NovelsJeffrey Oxford      11. Woman on the Road: A New Look at Bilbao’s Urban Landscape in Itxaro Borda’s Ezpeldoi SeriesJavier Cillero Goiriastuena      About the Contributors      Index