what does “Very poor fucking taste, in the circumstances”mean?
“The odds of people close to a suicide killing themselves go right up, did you know that? This Raquelle was a depressive. She has a bad day, remembers the way out her mate took, and does a copycat jump. Which leads us right back to you, pal, persecuting people and pushing them…”
“…over the edge, yeah,” said Strike. “People keep saying that. Very poor fucking taste, in the circumstances. What about Tansy Bestigui’s evidence?”
“How many times, Strike? We proved she couldn’t have heard it,” Wardle said. “We proved it beyond doubt.”

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what does “Very poor fucking taste, in the circumstances”mean?
“The odds of people close to a suicide killing themselves go right up, did you know that? This Raquelle was a depressive. She has a bad day, remembers the way out her mate took, and does a copycat jump. Which leads us right back to you, pal, persecuting people and pushing them…”
“…over the edge, yeah,” said Strike. “People keep saying that. Very poor fucking taste, in the circumstances. What about Tansy Bestigui’s evidence?”
“How many times, Strike? We proved she couldn’t have heard it,” Wardle said. “We proved it beyond doubt.”

Answer

To push someone over the edge is a figure of speech meaning to  cause someone to be in a state of extreme emotional or mental distress.  In this case, since they were actually talking about a death by jumping from the edge of a building(I assume it was a building), to use that figure of speech in a literal manner was in poor taste (disrespectful).

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