Status Updates From Death Don't Have No Mercy

Short story collection.

Just read the first one: same title as the collection.

17 glorious pages.

This is up to par with the standards of spellbinding minimalist beauty William Boyle set for himself with Gravesend, but I'm wondering sometimes: is Boyle only masquerading as a crime writer? Because time is clearly not the best element of his writing. It seems like he's at the door of a major breakthrough and maybe letting the idea of crime fiction go might be his golden ticket.