{"id":2179,"date":"2021-03-26T10:38:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T09:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2021-03-26T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T09:38:37","slug":"review-dancing-towards-the-blade-and-other-stories-by-mark-billingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-dancing-towards-the-blade-and-other-stories-by-mark-billingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dancing Towards the Blade and Other Stories, by Mark Billingham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a fan of Mark Billingham&#8217;s crime novels featuring Tom Thorne, I had high hopes for this very short collection of three stories.  I was not disappointed.  All three are good, and at least one is set in a universe familiar to the Thorne novels &#8212; with one of the regular characters from that universe making a cameo appearance.  That story is also set in my neighborhood, and like the most recent Thorne novel, Highgate Woods plays a central role in the story.  This is a book that can be read in under an hour, and I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a fan of Mark Billingham&#8217;s crime novels featuring Tom Thorne, I had high hopes for this very short collection of three stories. I was not disappointed. All three are good, and at least one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}