Paul, Rachel2020-07-222022-07-122020-07-222022-07-1220202020https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/21084Since the early nineteenth century, crime fiction has since become extremely popular and the genre had grown into multiple subgenres. Some of the more common subgenres are – • “whodunit” fiction which is the most common form and it provides the readers with clues that would eventually reveal the crime • legal thrillers - where characters are usually lawyers or policemen • inverted detectives - where the plot reveals the criminal at the beginning and then the story works back to itpdfen-NZCrime fictionWomenWriters"Unveiling the Agatha Christies of Aotearoa." A selective annotated bibliography on crime fiction by New Zealand women writers from 2000 - 2019Text