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Edgar Award-winning crime novelist Minette Walters is known for revitalizing the tradition of the stand-alone psychological thriller in books such as The Ice House, The Dark Room, Acid Row and Fox Evil. This book offers an in-depth analysis of Walters' narrative technique and examines the major themes found throughout her work, including truth and justice, the treatment of children, patterns of victimization, British social issues, body image and body politics, the fashioning of identity, and heroism and evil in society. In addition, it includes a valuable interview with Walters.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Mary Hadley and Sarah D. Fogle
Truth and Justice
Mary Hadley
Soul Murder: Children in Minette Walters' Novels
Sarah D. Fogle
Body of Evidence/Body as Evidence in The Sculptress
Caren J. Town
Shakespeare, Scolds, and Self-Fashioning: The Making of Mathilda Gillespie in The Scold's Bridle
Rhonda Knight
A Wounded World: Victim/Victimizers in The Scold's Bridle, The Dark Room, and The Breaker
Lois A. Marchino and Deane Mansfield-Kelley
British Social Issues
Donna Waller Harper
The Impenetrable M and the Mysteries of Narration: Narrative in The Shape of Snakes
Tilda Maria Forselius
Society, Evil, and Other
Nancy Eliot Parker
The Tangled Web of Justice and Revenge: Narrative Devices and Subtexts in The Devil's Feather
Gerri Reaves
Everyday Heroes: Women of Valor
Rachel Schaffer
Online Interview with Minette Walters
Minette Walters and Contributors
Notes on Contributors
Index
