Thursday, March 25, 2021

Book Excerpt for the Day

    “We have two scenes,” he said.  “We’ve got the splat around back here on the side.  And then the room the guy was using.  That’s the top floor, room seventy-nine.”


    It was the routine way of police officers to dehumanize the daily horrors that came with the job.  Jumpers were called splats.



    (from The Drop by Michael Connelly)

 

    8½*/10.  The complete review is here.

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