Blood on the Table

<p> Written from a multicultural and interdisciplinary perspective this collection of new essays explores the semiotics of food in the 20th- and 21st-century crime fiction of authors such as Anthony Bourdain Arthur Upfield Sara Paretsky Andrea Camilleri Fred Vargas Ruth Rendell Stieg Larsson Leonardo Padura Georges Simenon Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Donna Leon. The collection covers a range of issues such as the provision of intra- peri- or paratextual recipes the aesthetics and ethics of food eating rituals as indications of cultural belonging and regional national and supranational identities. It also tackles eating disorders and other seemingly abnormal habits as signs of Otherness. Also mentioned are the television productions of the Inspector Montalbano series (1999-ongoing) the Danish-Swedish <I>Bron/Broen</I> (2011 <I>The Bridge</I>) and its remakes <I>The Tunnel</I> (2013 France/UK) and <I>The Bridge</I> (2013 USA).</p>