written by Hideo Yokoyama, translated by Jonathan Lloyd-Davies - The main attraction of a police procedural is the opportunity for readers to watch the characters develop over a series of short, complex novels - Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels, for example, or Sjowall and Wahloo's Matin Beck series. Both offer an apparently realistic depiction of police life in their respective nations, with small details about the central characters being dropped into the tightly woven plots; plots driven mainly by police investigation