----- Start Original Message ----- Sent: Fri, 06 Jul 2007
15:23:36 -0000 From: "Jacques Debierue" <
matrxtech@yahoo.com> To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com Subject: RARA-AVIS: Re:
Deadheads & the Laughing Policeman
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "caroli1975"
<karabair@...> wrote:
> >
> > I like Hill a lot. I'm curious what you
disliked about the style. He
> > writes procedurals, but I personally wouldn't
consider him noir --
> > there's a psychological darkness to some of his
work, but it doesn't
> > really fit the noir sensibility. He's closer to
P.D. James or Ruth
> > Rendell.
>
> That may well be the problem for the original
poster... while I don't
> dislike Hill, there is a certain cosiness that makes
me not take his
> stories all that seriously.
That's exactly it.
Jordan
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