I'd have to put Denise Mina's Garnethill in this category. I
guess it could be categorized as an amateur detective novel,
but the voice of the amateur detective is novel, that of a
traumatized survivor of incest. This gives her an interesting
new perspective as she and her friend investigate a crime she
claims she is being framed for.
And I guess that's where innovation comes, with new voices
(Motherless Brooklyn?). The basic concerns don't much change
-- crime and its aftemath (sometimes also the planning) --
but who tells it and how it is told can change the form.
Wasn't that hardoiled's revolution, that of
perspective?
Mark
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