An article published in The Atlantic Monthly magazine, in July 2016, announced that "Women Are Writing the Best Crime Novels." This wasn't a personal opinion, but a fact established by statistics from various publishing houses that women wrote, read, and bought the most mystery novels. Although male novelists were still published, women writers had captured the genre. So, what did they do with it? How has the genre changed in the hands of these women writers? That's the question this presentation will explore.

This presentation is made possible by the Speaker's Bureau of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Delaware. OLLI is a volunteer-based, learning cooperative for adults 50+. The Speaker’s Bureau is a group of instructors who are part of OLLI's community outreach effort on education.