{"id":1199,"date":"2005-08-02T18:23:51","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T18:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/08\/the_art_of_murd\/"},"modified":"2005-08-02T18:23:51","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T18:23:51","slug":"the_art_of_murd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/the_art_of_murd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Murder"},"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=0349118833&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=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 \/>\nJose Carlos Somoza is the talented Spanish (or maybe Argentinian) author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000183.html\">The Athenian Murders<\/a>, a very clever mystery set in both present day Spain and ancient Athens.<br \/>\nHis latest (well, I say latest, but I&#8217;m not completely sure of the original Spanish publication dates) is set in the art world. Well I say, art world, but it&#8217;s an art world in a strange parallel universe where a new form of art &#8211; hyperdramatic art &#8211; where models are painted by superstar artists, and are treated as part of the work of art themselves.<br \/>\nSo we get a pretty vivid picture of this world. But there&#8217;s a murdered loose &#8211; The Artist &#8211; hell bent on destroying (ie murdering) some of the most famous and valuable &#8220;canvasses&#8221;.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s quite a page-turner, and the multiplicity of characters means that we&#8217;re never quite sure who could be guilty. The idea of hyperdramatic art is pretty hideous, and is several steps removed from something as simple of body-art, but morals don&#8217;t really enter into it; we&#8217;re living in a world where it happens at that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Carlos Somoza is the talented Spanish (or maybe Argentinian) author of The Athenian Murders, a very clever mystery set in both present day Spain and ancient Athens. His latest (well, I say latest, but I&#8217;m not completely sure of the original Spanish publication dates) is set in the art world. Well I say, art [&hellip;]<\/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-1199","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\/1199","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=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}