Finders : justice, faith, and identity in Irish crime fiction /
"Irish detectives are idiosyncratic characters, conforming neither to obsolete, stereotypical crime fiction devices nor to sentimentalized notions of Irishness engendered by the American imagination and popular culture representations. As these detectives attempt to reconcile and evaluate stand...
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Syracuse, New York :
Syracuse University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Irish studies (Syracuse, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part one: Finders of Lost Things: Saint Anthony, Identity, and the Limits of Structural Justice
- The System, Changed: Ken Bruen's Jack Taylor, John Connolly's Every Dead Thing, Alex Barclay's Darkhouse, and Tana French's In the Woods
- Part Two: Michael Tramples Satan: Northern Ireland's Troubled Police
- "A Middle Finger to the Darkness": Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy
- Borders: Brian McGilloway's Lucy Black
- Bridges: Claire McGowan's Paula Maguire
- Part Three: Saint Christopher: Redemption and Narrative
- A Disordered World: Gerard Brennan's Disorder, Stuart Neville's The Ghosts of Belfast, and Steve Cavanagh's The Defense
- The Stories We Tell :Eoin McNamee's Blue Trilogy
- Conclusion