![]() As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV1, we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit. The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week-except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. People all over the world are walking off the job-but not Hank Palace. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. Winters went on to write two more books in the series, the last of. The Last Policeman is extraordinaryas well as brilliant, surprising, and, considering the circumstances, oddly uplifting. ![]() A mystery/science-fiction mashup, Winters is creating a determined police detective who still remains. What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway?ĭetective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There aren’t as many adult dystopian books, so in 2012 I was excited to read Ben Winters’ The Last Policeman. This book was not at ALL what I expected. ![]() Winner of the 2013 Edgar® Award Winner for Best Paperback Original! " weird, beautiful, unapologetically apocalyptic Last Policeman trilogy is one of my favorite mystery series."-John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns ![]()
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