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Setting in fiction: It helps if you live there

July 14, 2007 by Dave Knadler

The fine blog Detectives Beyond Borders recently had a discussion about the significance of setting in crime fiction. Peter was commenting on an assertion by Clive James that many of today’s international crime novels are so crammed with geographic detail that they are essentially guidebooks. I’ve had the same reaction, most recently to “A Small Death in Lisbon,” where the protagonist’s steps through the city are described […]

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