Setting In Lee Child's Killing Floor

In Lee Child’s novel, Killing Floor, the setting of Margrave, Georgia, can be described as a quiet little town. Margrave is clean, everything looks new, and the town is almost deserted. The town can be described as a small dot on the map. The town is to quiet and nice to not have something bad happening. Lee Child uses the setting in Killing Floor to hide the dark secrets of Margrave, Georgia. One way the setting of Margrave, Georgia, is used to hide the dark secrets is that the town is too new. According to the author, “Every single building was either brand-new or recently refurbished” (Child 121). This quote shows that everything in the town needs to look new or like new. It shows that the town is not normal in the sense that no town has all new or like new buildings. There are old ones and it could be hiding a secret because someone wants the town to look nice so that no one would think of a crime occurring the town. Another way the

According to the author, “On the wall between us was a clock. It was a big old round thing framed in mahogany. Looked like it had decades of polish on it” (Child 11). This shows that the office is clean and meant to look nice. With this you would expect the Chief would look professional just like the office. That is not the case here. The author continues, “But this fat police chief was a waste of space. Thin dirty hair. Sweating, despite the chilly air. The blotchy red and gray complexion of an unfit, overweight mess” (Child 11). This quote paints a clear picture of the type of man Chief Morrison is. If this town was not hiding a secret his office would match his personality. Instead of being messy and dirty like him, it is neat, clean, and professional. This shows that Morrison is a dirty cop. He needs his office to look clean in hopes that it makes him look clean as