Like the title says, I just finished *"The Last Policeman"* yesterday during a power outage and *man*, what a cool book! I remember reading it back in high school many years ago but I thought I'd pick it up again now that I'm pretty far into adulthood and the question it asks is still something that echoes something within me, especially with the current mess the worlds in:

"What would you do with just six months until the end of the world?"

As far as detective mysteries go, this one is pretty alright! I'm not particularly inquisitive when it comes to mysteries (I'm mostly along for the ride) but Detective Henry "Hank" Palace really seems like the type of guy I would like to know if the >!world was about to get splatted by a giant meteor.!<, he just seems like the type that would always think rationally and objectively, y'know? Thinking back to the first year of Covid, I had vulnerable family I needed to make sure were protected and that responsibility was hoisted onto me pretty early in my adulthood-- everything ended up being *relatively* okay, but someone described post covid society as being "a darker version of their previous selves" and I would have to agree... I'm definitely more pessimistic about society as a whole, but I'm in it till the end.

Has anyone read this novel here? What are your thoughts about a pre-2012 apocalypse book that labels itself as an "existential detective novel"? Maybe it's a weird footnote from the last decade, but I'd definitely recommend this to someone who wants to read something sensational and detective like :p