Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Deadheads & the Laughing Policeman

From: funkmasterj@runbox.com
Date: 06 Jul 2007


----- 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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