What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway ?
Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid
2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just
six precious months until impact.
The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches
and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off
the job—but not Hank Palace. 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.
This week's book is The Last Policeman by Ben Winters and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.