Policing Gender and Alicia Gimenez Bartlett's Crime Fiction

Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermi­n Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series in Spain of the last three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detecti