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Sue Turnbull, Honorary Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of Wollongong

Contemporary crime fiction has moved beyond conventional genre tropes – just don’t call it ‘literary’

Cemetery sculpture, Melbourne. Neale Cousland/Shutterstock

A young man is released from prison and finds work in a cemetery. A family embarks on a beach holiday in New Zealand. In each scenario, there’s not a detective in sight, amateur or professional – although there are a few bodies to contend with.

Just in case you hadn’t noticed, crime fiction today is a capacious genre, unconstrained by the conventional genre tropes, and all the more enthralling for that.

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