Yes, and I was also humorously referring to the entire murder-in-a-small-town genre, including Midsummer, Cabot Cove, Shetland, and innumerable villages and small towns in… Wales, South Africa, Australia, France, Norway, all over the rural US, in both present and past eras.
The insularity being a contributor to motives for murder, between land disputes, scandalous secrets being hidden until they fester, and people who don’t have the option or opportunity to get away…
I wasn’t referring to the horror/slasher genre, but some of those fit as well.
By “close reading” you mean Agatha Christie novels? No seriously, where did you get that from?
Yes, and I was also humorously referring to the entire murder-in-a-small-town genre, including Midsummer, Cabot Cove, Shetland, and innumerable villages and small towns in… Wales, South Africa, Australia, France, Norway, all over the rural US, in both present and past eras.
The insularity being a contributor to motives for murder, between land disputes, scandalous secrets being hidden until they fester, and people who don’t have the option or opportunity to get away…
I wasn’t referring to the horror/slasher genre, but some of those fit as well.