Julia Crouch

Julia Crouch is a British novelist, who writes Domestic Noir, a sub-genre of crime fiction. The term was first applied to fiction in 2012 by Crouch herself, who has been called "The Queen of Domestic Noir". She described the form in her blog:

In a nutshell, Domestic Noir takes place primarily in homes and workplaces, concerns itself largely (but not exclusively) with the female experience, is based around relationships and takes as its base a broadly feminist view that the domestic sphere is a challenging and sometimes dangerous prospect for its inhabitants. That’s pretty much all of my work described there.

The term was widely accepted by the publishing industry and Crouch went on to write the introduction to Domestic Noir: The New Face of 21st Century Crime Fiction, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.

Crouch spent four years as Visiting Fellow on the University of East Anglia Crime Writing MA. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Brighton and teaches for Faber Academy and the National Centre for Writing in Norwich. With fellow author William Shaw, she hosts bi-monthly Brighton Crime Wave events at Waterstones bookshop, where they interview other crime fiction authors.