Frederick,
Re your comments below:
> I watched the most recent PBS Mystery
series
> featuring Elizabeth
> George's cozies, figuring watching one of
her
> stories on TV would spare me
> from reading an ARC of one of her books. Her
main
> character Thomas Lynley
> was such "a sensitive male," I puked. He was
more
> sensitive than any woman
> in the story, especially the 18 yr old murderer
who
> used an axe to behead
> her father.
While I might have a hard time describing the "Eighth Earl of
Aylesford" (or whatever the heck his title is) as
"hard-boiled" (at one point he even says that trying to put
on a "hard-boiled" pose didn't work for him), I can't really
describe Ms. George's work as
"cozy."
Ms. Geroge goes to a great deal of trouble to get the details
of police procedure right, and, for all that her cop-hero is
a titled aristocrat more likely to evoke Lord Peter or Mr.
Campion than Joe Friday or Steve Carella, he's a cop who
investigates cases more or less the way a real cop
would.
For the record I liked both the book and the TV version of A
GREAT DELIVERANCE. Interesting that the two cop novels
discussed so far during police procedural month, A GREAT
DELIVERANCE and JDM's ONE MONDAY WE KILLED THEM ALL, are by
two such disparate writers, which just goes to show how
broadly the procedural can stretch.
JIM DOHERTY
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