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In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of crime novels written over the last decade, Binder emphasises the genre’s feminist potential and critically maps its political work at the intersection of gender and race. Her study challenges the perception of crime fiction as a trivial genre and shows how, in South Africa at least, it provides a vibrant platform for social, cultural and ethical debates, exposing violence, misogyny and racism and shedding light on the problematics of law and justice for women faced with crime. Readership: All interested in crime fiction and its gender/racial political potential, its cultural relevance, its ethics and aesthetics, in South Africa and beyond.

Detective and mystery stories, South African (English) --- Women in literature --- Victims of crimes in literature --- Female offenders in literature --- Women detectives in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Detective and mystery stories, English --- South African detective stories (English) --- South African mystery stories (English) --- South African fiction (English) --- History and criticism --- Female offenders in literature. --- Victims of crimes in literature. --- Women detectives in literature. --- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- History and criticism.