{"id":2575,"date":"2022-06-18T16:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2022-06-18T16:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T15:33:58","slug":"review-the-murder-book-by-mark-billingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-murder-book-by-mark-billingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Murder Book, by Mark Billingham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mark Billingham, who is probably Britain&#8217;s finest living crime writer, has been knocking off a book a year, sometimes starring his main protagonist Tom Thorne, but sometimes with Thorne only having a walk-on part.  In this year&#8217;s book, Thorne is centre stage.  Working together with his two closest colleagues (and best friends) he is up against an old nemesis.  I love these books not only because they&#8217;re cleverly-plotted, full of wit, and with characters I have grown to know well.  I also love them because they&#8217;re largely set in Crouch End, Muswell Hill, Hornsey, Kentish Town and Highgate.  In other words, in my neighbourhood.  Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Billingham, who is probably Britain&#8217;s finest living crime writer, has been knocking off a book a year, sometimes starring his main protagonist Tom Thorne, but sometimes with Thorne only having a walk-on part. In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2575","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\/2575","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=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}