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While we're on the subject of unrelentingly bleak catalogues of atrocity, I finally finished David Peace's Red Riding Quartet. Dunno if it really fits into the detective genre, though, since it's so grimdark and nihilistic that nothing really gets answered or resolved in a satisfactory sense and it's written in such a borderline-incomprehensible stream of consciousness style. Nonetheless, can anyone recommend me something similar in tone? The only comparable stuff I've read in the crime genre's a bit of James Ellroy's earlier output.
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Dunno if this thread's dead or just slow-moving, but I've just discovered Derek Raymond, who I don't think has been mentioned yet. His Factory series of novels follow an unnamed detective solving the murders of forgotten, abandoned people in Thatcher's grey and grotty Britain. Our protagonist's a bit of a judgemental dick and it's quite cathartic when he mouths off to the loathsome characters he encounters throughout. I've only read two of the five novels so far, but I think they're worth a punt - though the E-book editions are a bit pricey and you might want to shop around for second-hand paperbacks instead.
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