Dahl's newest novel is I Dreamed of Falling.
At CrimeReads the author tagged four works of crime fiction with children as prominent characters, including:
Emma Donoghue, RoomRead about the other entries on the list.
While not marketed as crime fiction, Room is the story of an ongoing crime, and its aftermath. The book is narrated by 5-year-old Jack, whose entire life has played out in a single room (a shed) where he is held with his mother, who was kidnapped two years before he was born. What is so astonishing about this book is the way, in the word’s of New York Times reviewer Aimee Bender, “Jack’s eyes remake the familiar.” By privileging the little boy’s voice, we see the world anew, and it is both beautiful and utterly terrifying.
Room is among Greg Mitchell's ten top escapes in literature.
--Marshal Zeringue