Title: Impact
Author: Mark David Abbott
Date: 2020
Quote: "Just another dead person in the street."
On a hot day in southern India, a laborer tries to refresh himself from a day's work with alcohol and crashes his motorbike into a parked truck. His widow demands some sort of compensation. She's not entitled to any, but she is poor. Inspector Sampath tries to help by talking the school staff into waiving the suddenly fatherless children's school fees. But an indignant woman tells Sampath her husband has been ordered to make an exorbitant payment to the widow and orphans! Obviously nobody has paid them anything. What's going on?
There is no mystery and no suspense in this story; it's just another incident in the busy life of the fictional detective. We learn what kind of man Sampath is and what kind of community he serves. If you collect the series, which apparently contains mystery stories, you'll want this novella to complete your collection.
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