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Tart Noir is a branch of crime fiction that is characterized by strong independent female detectives with an amount of sexuality often involved. The books in the genre also occasionally feature a murderer protagonist and are sometimes presented in a first person point of view. Tart Noir was labeled and effectively created as a genre by four writers during the 1990s Lauren Henderson Laura Lippman Katy Munger and Sparkle Hayter.