The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly
depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate
on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several
unrelated crimes in a single story. While traditional mysteries usually adhere
to the convention of having the criminal's identity concealed until the climax (the so-called whodunit), in police procedurals, the perpetrator's identity is often
known to the audience from the outset (the inverted detective story). Police procedurals depict a number
of police-related topics such as forensics, autopsies, the gathering of evidence, the use of search warrants and interrogation.
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Some authors
of police procedurals:
Burke, James
Lee
Creasy,
John (AKA J.J.Marric)
Connelly,
Michael
Cornwell,
Patrcia
Crais,
Robert
Deaver,
Jeffrey
Hillerman,
Tony
James, P.D.
Lehane,
Dennis
Leonard,
Elmore
McDonald,
John D.
Penny,
Louise
Simenon,
Georges
Walker,
Martin
Wambaugh,
Joseph
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