for my money, Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series does an
outstanding job with versimilitude. Bosch is a homicide
detective, so his involvement in crime makes perfect sense.
Connelly seems to know a lot of telling details about how
systems work and how the people who work in those systems
interact.
and his prose style is straightforward and unadorned as
befits someone who was a crime journalist for many years, so
it never becomes self conscious. his plots are generally very
complex, start small and get big and dark. and I really enjoy
how sad and lonely the character is.
John Lau
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