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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The "how" the protagonist traps the bad guy is a separate sub-genre called police procedurals.
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Another fun series is William Marshall's Yellowthread Street books, set in the fictitious Hong Bay District of Hong Kong, featuring Detective Chief Inspector Harry Fieffer and his crew.
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Straddling genres, we have Liz william's "Inspector Chen" books. They are set in a near term future where the city of Singapore has franchised and spawned clones. Chen lives in Singapore3. The gods and demons of Chinese mythology are very real in Chen's world. He is his department's Snake Agent - the one responsible for crimes involving the supernatural. His fellow officers stay as far away from him as possible. He has a patron goddess who is displeased with him because he married a female demon he rescued from dire circumstances before the series takes place. And he finds himself with a demon partner - Zhu Urdz, a Senescal in the Ministry of Vice in Hell. Hell has laws, too, and demons whose job it is to enforce them, and Chen finds himself partnered with Urdz on cases that overlap their respective jurisdiction. Great fun throughout.
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Dennis
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I read the Yellowthread Street books, and you've downright intrigued me, so I've just snatched up an Inspector Chen. Sounds just my cuppa!
Thanks,
Hitch