If you are looking for a police procedural written from a conservative sensibility, you can’t do much better than In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George. The novel features a Hillary-Clinton-type character and offers a very realistic depiction of what that means and what it costs.
George is known by going deep into the story of even minor characters, making them real and memorable. As a result, her novels grow longer and longer. The series isn’t uniform in quality, so if you don’t have the energy to read 20 books ranging from 400 to 1,000 pages each, I’d concentrate on this one.
One of George’s favorite themes is a parent’s love for a child. She writes about it with heartbreaking force. But in In the Presence of the Enemy, she gives us an ice-cold, cruelly ambitious mother who is incapable of even imagining what love is.
The novel is from 20 years ago, when everybody was still normal and wrote normally without trying to maneuver around ideological landmines.
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