James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction by UEA Lecturer in Crime Writing Nathan Ashman longlisted for the Mystery Writers of America 2025 Edgar Allan Poe Awards in the Best Critical / Biographical Work category. Nathan (pictured) teaches on the MA in Crime Fiction and is the convenor of the undergraduate module ‘The Art of Murder’. He has previously held teaching posts at both the University of Surrey and the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author of James Ellroy and Voyeur Fiction (2018) and James Sallis: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (2024), as well as the editor of The Routledge Handbook of Crime Fiction and Ecology (2023). He has also published articles on writers such as Ross Macdonald, E.C Bentley, Don DeLillo, Megan Abbott and Walter Mosley. His latest book, Ecological Crime Fiction: From the Local to the Global, will be published later this year by Cambridge University Press and will form part of a new series called Elements in Crime Narratives.
Nathan Ashman longlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe Awards
