1 Introduction to Domestic Noir Laura Joyce -- Part I The Origins of Domestic Noir -- 2 The Literary Antecedents of Domestic Noir Fiona Peters -- 3 Hollywood and the Trailblazers of Domestic Noir: The Case of Vera Caspary's Laura (1943) Stefania Ciocia -- Part II The Influences of Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl -- 4 Gone Genre: How The Academy Came Running And Discovered Nothing Was As It Seemed Henry Sutton -- 5 From Cool Girl to Dead Girl: Gone Girl and the Allure of Female Victimhood Eva Burke -- Part III Gendered, Sexual, and Intimate Violence in Domestic Noir -- 6 "How Much Do You Want to Pay for This Beauty?" Domestic Noir and the Active Turn in Feminist Crime Fiction Emma V. Miller -- 7 Teenage Kicks: Performance and Postfeminism in Domestic Noir Leigh Redhead -- 8 The Violent Mother in Fact and Fiction Nicoletta Di Ciolla and Anna Pasolini -- Part IV Home as a Site of Violence -- 9 "[T]he People that Should Have Lived Here": Haunting,the Economy, and Home in Tana French's Broken Harbour Shelley Ingram and Willow G. Mullins -- 10 The Subversion of the Male Tradition in Crime Fiction: Liane Moriarty's Little Lies Elena Avanzas Álvarez -- 11 Domestic Noir and the US Cozy as Responses to the Threatened Home Diane Waters and Heather Worthington -- 12 The House and the Hallucination in Tana French's New Irish Gothic Rosemary Erickson Johnsen 13 Crime, the Domestic, and Social Commentary in Pierre Lemaitre's Thriller Andrea Hynynen -- 14 Carmen's Final Problem: Contesting Crime Fiction and Gender Roles in Marcela Serrano's Nuestra Señora de la Soledad Patricia Catoira.