AN EYE FOR AN EYE: JUSTICE V. REVENGE 

The crime novel has always scrutinized how the justice system works, either by shining an unflinching light on its pitfalls, biases, and injustices or by showing it running as smoothly as a Swiss watch. With more and more public scrutiny on crime and policing, does the crime writer have a responsibility to show the system working or to expose its inconsistencies and flaws? When does justice cross the line into vengeance? Is taking the law into one’s own hands ever justified, or is it merely vigilantism? Join us as five amazing authors discuss writing about crime, the justice system, and how their work explores and reflects those fine lines between personal morality and human justice. J.M. Redmann moderates this discussion with S.A. Cosby, Margot Douaihy, Genevieve Essig, and Michael Nava.