On a recent novel called The Searcher by the Irish writer Tana French
I have not read it yet, but it appears to be about a long-time Chicago police officer who retires to rural Ireland. He meets a boy whose brother has gone missing, and the police don’t care. From the book flap: “Against his will, he discovers that even in the most idyllic small town, secrets are hidden, people aren’t always what they seem, and trouble can come calling at his door.”
This is an interesting for me now because police indifference or even brutality and torture was a very personal experience recently. I have a fictional novel idea but have not really started on it yet.
It has to with the binary between passive and self-destructive addiction and moral action in a cruel and sometimes violent world.