Joy said: Anyway, I've run out of on-hand new-to-me authors,
although I still plan to acquire Peace and maybe some others.
I've read a couple of Ian Rankins and have been sort of on
the fence as to whether they're police procedurals. Rebus has
seemed to either take off on his own or be sent off; he is
often only very loosely affiliated with the police
department. I can see that the series isn't the exemplar of
police procedurals while still allowing it in my version of
that category.
************* Somebody a while ago mentioned that you can
recognize a police procedural by the departmental politicking
and the police method in examining the evidence. I've only
read Rankin's THE BLACK BOOK, but there was plenty of police
politics in it.
Although I am very interested in what qualifies as hardboiled
or noir, I just can't find the same level of enthusiasm in
deciding whether something is a procedural or not. Although I
have come to the conclusion that all the Pearson novels I've
read are procedurals, I wasn't aware of the label until long
after I had read them.
miker
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