Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

The line uses deadpan, workplace-style humor to undercut the gravity of violence by treating homicide as an administrative inconvenience. By attributing the quip to “Zebrowski” (a recurring police character in Hamilton’s Anita Blake universe), the speaker frames law enforcement as exhausted by bureaucracy: the real threat isn’t moral consequence but the tedium of restarting forms and procedures. The joke also signals a hard-boiled milieu where characters cope with constant danger through gallows humor, and it characterizes Zebrowski as pragmatic, sardonic, and overwhelmed—someone whose patience is worn thin by repeated crises and the paperwork that follows.