So I've written a lot (hundreds/thousands) of features and reviews about mystery fiction in the last 11 years.
I am now writing my first book about the genre (with another couple potentially in the pipeline too).
I'm writing a pocket essential guide to Australian and New Zealand crime writing for a London publisher.
This will slot in with leading UK critic Barry Forshaw's series of readers guides (Brit Noir, Scandi Noir, American Noir, Historical Noir, etc) - so it's not an academic treatise but an introduction for booklovers, with 250+ entries about particular authors, and some interviews and other commentary. Written in an accessible, magazine style rather than an academic one.
So a bit of a 'Lonely Planet' or 'Rough Guide' for a particular segment of the mystery genre.
It's focused on the modern era of Australian and New Zealand crime writing (1995-2020), though will include historic mysteries written during that period but set in decades/centuries past. It will also include some film/television etc.
I hope that this will be useful and of interest to readers around the world. All going to plan, it will be out Spring 2020 or so.