We explore the margins of the genre to find long shots that squeeze it to the maximum from different perspectives. A handful of books for lovers, or not, of crime fiction.
The noir novel, in its less canonical sense, has such open borders that you have to travel many literary miles to get from one end of the spectrum to the other.
That's what I'm trying to do today with these seven novels, which range from an interesting exploration of ETA brutality, to the strangest detective I've come across lately, to, for example, a coroner in Laos with a peculiar sense of life. That, and more.
See the titles here