by Daniel Friedman
Baruch (Buck) Schatz was once a legend in the Memphis police department. He has been retired for some 30 years now and is 85 or so. Basically all he does is watch TV, take pills, and go to funerals. One of his former army buddies, Jim Wallace, calls Buck to his hospital room for a final confession, ...
Debut novel featuring a retired Memphis homicide detective who is definitely not the cuddly old person type. This was nominated for the Edgar best first and was different enough to be entertaining. Listened to the audio which was read by Nick Sullivan who had the main character's raspy and a bit a...
In his last few weeks, my grandfather was wracked by constant pain, the cancer that later killed him taking its sweet damn time to rip and tear, piece by piece, through every joint and cavity. He moved into hospice care--a lousy low-cost cell with a lousy little bed and a lousy la-z-boy knockoff an...
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