{"id":1082,"date":"2005-04-12T18:23:08","date_gmt":"2005-04-12T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/04\/before_the_fros\/"},"modified":"2005-04-12T18:23:08","modified_gmt":"2005-04-12T18:23:08","slug":"before_the_fros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/before_the_fros\/","title":{"rendered":"Before The Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0099459043&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;nou=1&#038;IS2=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nA new Mankell book is always welcome, and I&#8217;ve waited for the paperback this time. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099459043\">Before The Frost<\/a> is the first Linda Wallander novel, and featuring our favourite Swedish detective&#8217;s daughter on her first case.<br \/>\nActually it turns out not to really be her first case since the majority of the novel takes place before she has actually started with the Ystad force. As usual, dark doings are taking place in Skane, and while her father&#8217;s leading the case, we see things from the eyes of Linda who tends to lead things along. Indeed her friend may be caught up in things.<br \/>\nWe open some twenty years earlier in Guyana where a sect has committed mass &#8220;suicide&#8221;. As ever with these prologues, you&#8217;re not sure where you&#8217;re going. But things clear up as the novel progresses.<br \/>\nThe Mankell novels are popular throughout Europe, and you feel that they&#8217;re finally breaking through properly in the UK now. Indeed Random House have set up a website &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mankellholicsanonymous.com\/\">mankellholicsanonymous.com<\/a> to promote this latest paperback.<br \/>\nGood fun &#8211; well fun&#8217;s probably the wrong word &#8211; and well worth a read. Roll on &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1843430983\">The Man Who Smiled<\/a> in the Autumn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0099459043<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}