{"id":3204,"date":"2024-06-30T13:44:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T12:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2024-06-30T13:44:31","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T12:44:31","slug":"review-the-wrong-hands-by-mark-billingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-wrong-hands-by-mark-billingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Wrong Hands, by Mark Billingham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This, the second book in Mark Billingham&#8217;s new Blackpool-based crime series, continues an unbroken trend of superb story-telling, mixed with humour and characters you actually care about.  DS Declan Miller sounds at first like a caricature, a grieving middle-aged policeman who wife has been murdered but who converses with her ghost, who keeps two pet rats named Fred and Ginger, rides a moped and whose hobby is ballroom dancing.  In the hands of another writer, one might say that that&#8217;s a bit over the top.  But not here.  Miller, his dead wife Alex, her daughter Finn (who is homeless) and the others feel surprisingly real.  I do still, however, long to read more about Billingham&#8217;s first detective, the north London-based DCI Tom Thorne.  Maybe they could even meet and solve a crime together &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, the second book in Mark Billingham&#8217;s new Blackpool-based crime series, continues an unbroken trend of superb story-telling, mixed with humour and characters you actually care about. DS Declan Miller sounds at first like a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","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\/3204","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=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3206,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/3206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}