{"id":2701,"date":"2022-10-24T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2022-10-24T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T17:15:00","slug":"review-hide-and-seek-by-ian-rankin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-hide-and-seek-by-ian-rankin\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Hide and Seek, by Ian Rankin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A dead junkie is found in an Edinburgh squat, the victim of an overdose.  To most cops, that&#8217;s barely worth a mention.  To John Rebus, it looks like a crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t love the first book in Ian Rankin&#8217;s Rebus series, but was encouraged by friends to persist (they say gets better).  Well, they were right.  This is a better book than the first in the series.  It still has its issues (two police officers Rebus works with this time are named &#8212; I&#8217;m not making this up &#8212; Holmes and Watson).  But the story is more interesting and I&#8217;m tempted to continue with the series based on this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dead junkie is found in an Edinburgh squat, the victim of an overdose. To most cops, that&#8217;s barely worth a mention. To John Rebus, it looks like a crime. I didn&#8217;t love the first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","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\/2701","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=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}