Mario summed up the appeal of de Wetering, Freeling and
Sjowall and Wahloo (along with Constantine and Sallis):
"All of the named authors are excellent. The attitude is more
one of observing what's going on, rather than acting. It's a
cold kind of fiction, but it has the potential for
moving."
This description reminds me of William McIlvanney's three
Jack Laidlaw books. They are very gloomy. I think Rankin's
Jack Rebus books owe something to them. Laidlaw uses a kind
of holistic approach to crimesolving. It is less about
following clues and leads than it is about trying to
understand how the crime changes the relationships among the
people involved.
Mark
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