SA Cosby is an award-winning author from Southeastern Virginia, in Spain for the Getafe Negro Crime Fiction Festival, which this year had the United States as a guest country. Called the 'rising star' of the southern noir genre, his 2020 novel "Blacktop Wasteland" won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was named book of the year by NPR, the Guardian. In 2021, "Razorblade Tears" was a New York Times Bestseller and on Barack Obama's summer reading list!Those two booksare the ones that have been published in Spain. What makes the south a good setting for crime fiction? What can we learn from crime fiction? What about his novels could appeal to a Spanish readership?