CRIME WRITING AS SOCIAL COMMENTARY

Presented by the Diana Pinckley Prize for Crime Fiction

All crime writing—true crime or fiction—explores right and wrong and the many layers of ambiguity in between. Social issues are often paramount in crime writing. Emma Copley Eisenberg shows how a single crime ripples throughout a community in her true crime bestseller, The Third Rainbow Girl. C.S. Harris explores the social issues of Regency England in her long running Sebastian St. Cyr series. Angie Kim explores medical ethics in her debut novel. And Marcie Rendon, in her Cash Blackbear series, illuminates the issues facing contemporary Native Americans. Moderated by J.M. Redmann, creator of the Micky Knight series.