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Lethal Injection by Jim Nesbit. After the monster tome that was The Goldfinch I wanted something accessible and short, and hardboiled/noir fiction is my preferred wheelhouse for that sort of thing. One of the blurbs was from James Ellroy (<3) and another said it was like "Kafka meets Jim Thompson", which sold me.
I'm a few chapters in. It's from the perspective of doctor supervising a Texas execution by (you guessed it) lethal injection. The execution is complete, but the doctor is starting to worry that the condemned might have been innocent. Comparisons with Jim Thompson are apt, Nesbit is eloquent and it's darkly humorous: "Royce had prescribed Mencken enough Valium to tranquilize ten out-of-work actresses."
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