Ciara Gorman is Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Studies at Maynooth University, Ireland.

• Introduction: Myths and Mirrors: Narrating Female Criminality in Contemporary French Crime FictionChapter One: Fatal Attraction: The Serial Killer and the Femme Fatale in Pierre Lemaitre’s AlexChapter Two: ‘Une femme martyre et meurtrière’: Confronting the Witch in Fred Vargas’s Quand sort la recluseChapter Three: Inimical Intimacy: At Home with the Mère fatale in Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douceChapter Four: On ne naît pas garce: The Gangster and The Bitch in Hannelore Cayre’s La DaronneConclusionBibliographyIndex

In exploring female criminals across a number of crime fiction genres—vigilante narrative, police procedural, domestic noir, and hardboiled—Gorman makes important and timely arguments, teasing out the implications of traditional and more subversive depictions of female criminals. Elegantly written and theoretically compelling, this is a must-read for scholars of French crime fiction and of feminist detective fiction.

Ciara Gorman is Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Studies at Maynooth University, Ireland.

• Introduction: Myths and Mirrors: Narrating Female Criminality in Contemporary French Crime FictionChapter One: Fatal Attraction: The Serial Killer and the Femme Fatale in Pierre Lemaitre’s AlexChapter Two: ‘Une femme martyre et meurtrière’: Confronting the Witch in Fred Vargas’s Quand sort la recluseChapter Three: Inimical Intimacy: At Home with the Mère fatale in Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douceChapter Four: On ne naît pas garce: The Gangster and The Bitch in Hannelore Cayre’s La DaronneConclusionBibliographyIndex

In exploring female criminals across a number of crime fiction genres—vigilante narrative, police procedural, domestic noir, and hardboiled—Gorman makes important and timely arguments, teasing out the implications of traditional and more subversive depictions of female criminals. Elegantly written and theoretically compelling, this is a must-read for scholars of French crime fiction and of feminist detective fiction.

Ciara Gorman is Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Studies at Maynooth University, Ireland.

• Introduction: Myths and Mirrors: Narrating Female Criminality in Contemporary French Crime FictionChapter One: Fatal Attraction: The Serial Killer and the Femme Fatale in Pierre Lemaitre’s AlexChapter Two: ‘Une femme martyre et meurtrière’: Confronting the Witch in Fred Vargas’s Quand sort la recluseChapter Three: Inimical Intimacy: At Home with the Mère fatale in Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douceChapter Four: On ne naît pas garce: The Gangster and The Bitch in Hannelore Cayre’s La DaronneConclusionBibliographyIndex

In exploring female criminals across a number of crime fiction genres—vigilante narrative, police procedural, domestic noir, and hardboiled—Gorman makes important and timely arguments, teasing out the implications of traditional and more subversive depictions of female criminals. Elegantly written and theoretically compelling, this is a must-read for scholars of French crime fiction and of feminist detective fiction.