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AUTHOR Winters, Ben H.
TITLE: The Last Policeman
DATE READ: 02/14/2016
RATING 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS Crime Fiction/ 2012 / Quirk Books / 318 pgs
SERI ES/STAND-ALONE: #1 in trilogy
CHARACTERS Henry Palace / police detective
TIME/PLACE: 2011/Concord, NH
FIRST LINES I'm staring at the insurance man and he's staring at me, two cold gray eyes behind old-fashioned tortoiseshell frames, and I'm having this awful and inspiring feeling, like holy moly this is real, and I don't know if I'm re ...more
TITLE: The Last Policeman
DATE READ: 02/14/2016
RATING 4.5/B+
GENRE/PUB DATE/PUBLISHER/# OF PGS Crime Fiction/ 2012 / Quirk Books / 318 pgs
SERI ES/STAND-ALONE: #1 in trilogy
CHARACTERS Henry Palace / police detective
TIME/PLACE: 2011/Concord, NH
FIRST LINES I'm staring at the insurance man and he's staring at me, two cold gray eyes behind old-fashioned tortoiseshell frames, and I'm having this awful and inspiring feeling, like holy moly this is real, and I don't know if I'm re ...more
A deeply intriguing premise and a narrator that delivers on the promise - I find a lot of the ideas Winters explores here to be thought-provoking and interesting. He ended up taking the story in a slightly more conventional direction than I anticipated from the setup, but still a good ride.
This book got under my skin and it’s going to stay with me for a long time. On the surface, it’s a murder mystery, with an interesting detective. Detective Palace is the only person convinced that this was a murder, almost all of his coworkers are convinced it’s just another suicide. Suicides are on the rise because in six months a gigantic comet is going to slam into Earth, possibly ending life as we know it.
How do you live when the future is uncertain? Some people quit their jobs and do that ...more
How do you live when the future is uncertain? Some people quit their jobs and do that ...more
Prompt: A book with an image of a source of light on the cover
So-so storyline as a crime mystery but the apocalyptic premise makes for interesting reading given the pandemic. Am I a masochist for reading it at this time? Coz I think I'm a bucket lister but the book seems to be right in that I'll be disappointed because a bucket list completion requires employees. ...more
So-so storyline as a crime mystery but the apocalyptic premise makes for interesting reading given the pandemic. Am I a masochist for reading it at this time? Coz I think I'm a bucket lister but the book seems to be right in that I'll be disappointed because a bucket list completion requires employees. ...more
Interesting scenario, a page turner set in the 6 months before a meteor takes out earth as we know it.
Ahhhh, this was brilliant and fierce and unexpected.
Aug 05, 2012
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