It sets up the situation and some guys with problems and lets it play out. Is what they’re doing putting them at risk? Anything they do in the city causes deviations from reality. None of the people in the city are real so they can’t be really killed-except Davis and Chaz. Headquarters orders them not to get involved, but feeling a sense of duty, they cautiously start an investigation. Davis visits his son Hal, successfully avoiding his ex-wife, but then the two detectives get sidetracked when they run across evidence of a mass murderer, The Photographer. They successfully locate a murder weapon, and then they have to wait for evening for their next assignment, a domestic dispute. The two of them have been sent to investigate a crime that took place 10 days ago. Davis thinks the two of them have been taken off regular duty for this because of deficiencies-Chaz is rated too aggressive, and Davis isn’t aggressive enough. This is a technology that can recreate a city of 20 million for a single day as a resource for police investigations. This review contains spoilers.Īnthony Davis and his partner Chaz are police detectives assigned to the Snapshot project. It runs 98 pages, and the film rights have been optioned by MGM. Everything is perfect about the snapshot of this new era and new ways of investigating something that had happened in the past.This is a futuristic detective novella published in 2017 through Sanderson’s imprint Dragonsteel Entertainment. William DeMeritt is a new voice for Brandon’s work but it is a mature and seasoned voice that portrays this fine tale. Just like in Words of Radiance and Oathbringer the book has sensation and enthusiasm but the idea of the recreated world is different and no doubt it is attractive too. The two in their desperation start to enter the domain behind their boundary line and find a new picture of the real world they live in.

Though they were given full charge of the snapshot, they were still ordered by the authorities not to investigate a case related to a massive killing that was part of the recreated snapshot.

The more they try the more complex the whole thing becomes, finally the two detectives think of trying something out of their premises. In the city with twenty million recreated people only the two detectives seem to have the upper hand but still the puzzle is too tough to handle. They get straight orders from the court to enter into the recreated world where they are the supreme authority to look for clues. Brandon Sanderson adopts those new methodologies in his latest novel about a day that the two detectives try to recreate so that they can get hold of things that have caused havoc in the whole city.Īnthony Davis and Chaz the two detectives of the current era come to investigate a case that started ten days ago. Detective novels are really changing their approach according to the new technologies that are being used today.

Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson