zone, said Detective Sgt. William Cocks, the deputy commanding officer the Nassau County Police Department's homicide squad.
It was a killing zone through the early 1990s, Detective Roe said, describing the bullets that flew and the bodies that fell.
But, sooner or later, every field has its field day, and the discovery of the Cascadia subduction zone stands as one of the greatest scientific detective stories of our time.
Their voices belong to journalists in war zones, fallen priests, homicide detectives and figures like Trotsky, J. Edgar Hoover, Jack Ruby, Custer, Jimmy Hoffa, Mary Jo Kopechne (Ai shares the general, though these days slightly archaic, fascination with the Kennedy family saga) and Ferdinand Marcos.
Awards juries love actors stepping out of their comfort zone and Hawes was grit personified as a police detective accused of leading her colleagues into a deadly ambush.
In many ways, in fact, The Dead Zone is a template for the recent glut of Scandinavian crime novels: a detective story with an unconventional detective, pursuing a case with elements of horror, but which delves deeper into the detective's psyche than most.
Using Schumer's list as a guide, a cellular detective set out on foot last week to collect dead-zone dispatches.
The detectives said the car that hit him was traveling 65 in a 45-miles-per-hour zone; its driver was never found.
Scores of detectives carefully combed a wide, half-mile highway stretch just south of the Manassas Civil War battle zone.
He has declared on his blog that "'Zone One' is a zombie novel in the way 'The Intuitionist' is a detective novel".
