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Oct 01, 2015KateHillier rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This one that kept popping up for me and something that I always ended up putting up on the back burner. I am very, very pleased that I finally read the thing. At first glance it's a standard sounding police procedural mystery. There's a suicide that Detective Hank Palace is convinced is actually a murder and his superiors are not supportive of him at all. It's one man standing for truth and justice against the odds. Sounds very generic except for one big thing: in the world of this novel there is an asteroid that is for sure going to hit the Earth and kill everyone in six months. People are running off to do what they always wanted to do, society is basically crumbling in this knowledge, and so everyone doesn't bother investigating suicides anymore since everyone really does it. Palace's commitment to truth seeking and justice is especially admirable and special here in a world where the unspoken question is "why bother when we're all going to be dead soon anyway?" Palace treats this fact as more of an inconvenience and not as any sort of excuse not to do his job. A job that is in fact what he has always wanted to do. It's a gripping novel and I am thrilled to see that it is a trilogy. Sign me up for the next two please!