After Agatha Author Forename:Sally At the end of a

At the end of a deadly bear hunt across the wilderness of Northern Sweden

respectable area

twenty years before

The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows

is a pawn in a game he only dimly comprehends

After Agatha Author Forename:Sally At the end of a'After Agatha' is the first book to examine how British, American and Canadian female crime writers pursue their craft and what they think about crime writing. The book explores why so many women who face fear and violence in their daily lives should be so addicted to crime fiction, much of which features extreme violence. The book analyses why criminal justice professionals including police officers, forensic scientists, probation officers and