When I think of a story like the one Phillip Thompson writes about in his phenomenal southern noir novel Deep Blood, I think of Warren Zevon, specifically, a song called “The Indifference of Heaven.” One of the best-written songs in Zevon’s catalogue, “The Indifference of Heaven” depicts lost love, murder, and desperation across a landscape marked by bleakness and inexhaustible supply of loneliness.