Crime Beat

Stray doppies
Watch out for the Dame (aka Margie Orford) on Carte Blanche this Sunday evening.
A musing (1): Is our crime fiction producing the nearest thing we have to a realist literature that reflects our society?
A musing (2): The state does not always triumph in our crime fiction – whether that of James McClure or Wessel Ebersohn or Deon Meyer or Richard Kunzmann – and right is often restored by extrajudicial means: have we no faith in authority?

Crime Beat Diary November 30 – December 3:
Monday: Margie Orford talks about Daddy’s Girl.
Tuesday: Barbara Ludman on the rise of our slasher fiction.
Wednesday: Chanette Paul praat met Piet Steyn oor sy nuutste krimi, Bottelnek.
Thursday: How the reviewers raved about Jassy Mackenzie’s My Brother’s Keeper.