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. In this first, Edgar Award-winning novel in the Last Policeman trilogy, Ben Winters creates a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. 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. Dick Award for Distinguished Science Fiction. 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. Winters is the author of eight novels, including most recently World of Trouble, the concluding book in the Last Policeman trilogy.World of Trouble was nominated for the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.Countdown City was an NPR Best Book of 2013 and the winner of the Philip K. Whats the point in solving murders if were all. 'A genre-defying blend of crime writing and science fiction.' -Alexandra Alter, The New York Times Winner of the 2013 Edgar(R) Award Winner for Best Paperback Original The Last Policeman: A Novel - The Last Policeman Trilogy van Ben Winters (boek, ebook, ISBN 9781594745775).

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