domestic noir

Domestic noir is a literary subgenre within crime fiction. Though used earlier in discussion of the film noir subgenre, the term was applied to fiction in 2013 by novelist Julia Crouch, who has been described by crime writer Elizabeth Haynes as "the queen of domestic noir". Crouch defined the subgenre in her blog:In a nutshell, Domestic Noir takes place primarily in homes and workplaces, concerns itself largely with the female experience, is based around relationships and takes as its base a bro