{"id":2182,"date":"2021-03-29T06:25:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T05:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2021-03-29T06:26:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T05:26:35","slug":"review-christmas-is-murder-by-val-mcdermid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-christmas-is-murder-by-val-mcdermid\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Christmas is Murder, by Val McDermid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Master story-teller Val McDermid here presents a dozen short stories all loosely connected to the Christmas holiday season.  The first one features her well-known crime-fighting duo, Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan, but after that moves onto more unfamiliar territory.  Without giving away too much, we meet a semi-retired Sherlock Holmes, George Orwell writing <em>1984<\/em> at the end of his life, and a ghost writer who is, well, a ghost.  A personal favourite: for anyone familiar with The Band&#8217;s 1968 album <em>Music from Big Pink<\/em>, McDermid has taken one of the best songs and turned it into a wonderful story with a very personal twist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master story-teller Val McDermid here presents a dozen short stories all loosely connected to the Christmas holiday season. The first one features her well-known crime-fighting duo, Dr. Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan, but after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2182","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\/2182","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=2182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2182\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}