Essay
Thinking Through Crime: F. Tennyson Jesseby Rosemary Johnsen
The novels of acclaimed author Sarah Waters are known for their meticulously created historical settings and their lesbian characters, plots and themes. Readers who appreciate crime fiction will also find elements of the genre in Waters' literary fiction. Affinity (1999) is partly set in a woman's prison and features multiple varieties of fraud; Fingersmith (2002) won the Crime Writers' Association's Ellis Peters Historical Dagger; The Little Stranger (2009) takes up unexplained goings-on in a decaying mansion, but mystery readers will discern criminal outcomes among the spookiness and psychopathology. In her most recent book, The Paying Guests (2014), Sarah Waters transforms elements of archetypal British inter-war murde
