Via Boing Boing:
It won't spoil the story when I tell you, because it's revealed on page 22: "six months and eleven days from today... a 6.5-kilometer-diameter ball of carbon and silicates will collide with Earth." That explains why most people in the police department don't care whether or not the dead man was murdered. The world is about to end.
The Last Policeman: solving a murder before an asteroid wipes out life on Earth - Boing Boing
Fascinating plot premise to examine the significance of moral obligation.
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