Domestic Noir is a literary
subgenre within
crime fiction. Though used earlier in discussion of the
film noir subgenre, the term was applied to fiction in 2013 by the novelist
Julia Crouch] who has been described by the crime writer,
Elizabeth Haynes, as "the queen of domestic noir". Crouch defined the subgenre in her blog:
Crouch's novels,
Cuckoo,
The Long Fall,
Tarnished and
Every Vow You Break, had previously been categorized as
psychological thrillers, a label she felt inadequate: 'The engine driving my work is more an unravelling than the high octane roller coaster suggested by the word 'thriller'.'