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Posted 2015-03-11 10:42 AM (#9853 - in reply to #9182)
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA		I read "The Last Policeman" by Ben H Winters. It's a murder mystery taking place several months before an asteroid slams into the earth. What I really liked about it was the existential angst of everyone. What makes the murder part wild is that it looks like a suicide, and tons of people people are committing suicide. So no one thinks anything of it except for one newly promoted detective. There's also a conspiracy plot smoldering in the background that appears to rev up in the next book (It's a trilogy so far). I don't read many mysteries, so I really enjoyed that part of it. I found it exciting. Overall, I enjoyed it, found it to be a fun but dark romp. Not great, but really good. In my SF book club, some people thought it was boring as far as mysteries go, but my mother-in-law who reads tons SF, fantasy, and mystery absolutely loved it and ordered the next two books. So I'll probably read those at some point.

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