Dr Susan Mandala has published an article in the summer 2012 edition of the journal
Style about the work of the North East crime-writer
Sheila Quigley.
In
'Crime Fiction as Regional Fiction: An Analysis of Dialect and Point of View in Sheila Quigley’s Bad Moon Rising', Susan argues that although the book is ostensibly a crime novel, it makes its most significant contribution as a regional novel by using point of view operations and dialect representation to confront a number of worryingly vicious stereotypes currently circulating about the urban poor. Offering a rare positive view of urban poverty in contemporary British popular culture as it does so,
Bad Moon Rising also takes the canon of English Northeastern regional writing in a welcome new direction.
