Ah yes, crime! For my final year of High School, I had to read about a million crime novels for English Extension, so I'm on a hiatus from crime now, but I read some real gold while I was at it. I'm very much into newer crime fiction that subverts all the old conventions of the genre, all the alternative and spoof stuff. That said, I do like a good old film noir or hardboiled detective story every now and then - Dashiell Hammett is a fave.