Chapter 1: Crime news and what this book is about.- Chapter 2: Critical Stylistics.- Chapter 3: Naming and describing offenders and victims.- Chapter 4: Representing actions, events and states through the predicator.- Chapter 5: Equivalence, opposition, enumeration, prioritising and implied meaning.- Chapter 6: Hypothesising, negation and presenting others' speech.- Chapter 7: Deixis and metaphor.- Chapter 8: Analysing a newspaper report on crime...