{"id":1215,"date":"2005-08-18T17:38:59","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T17:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/08\/case_histories\/"},"modified":"2005-08-18T17:38:59","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T17:38:59","slug":"case_histories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/case_histories\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Histories"},"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=0552772437&#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 \/>\nI&#8217;d not read any of Kate Atkinson&#8217;s books before, although I&#8217;ve seen them riding high in the bestsellers for a while. So I didn&#8217;t really know what to expect when I started Case Histories.<br \/>\nWhat we have is something akin to one of those Barbara Vine or Minnette Walters crime things you see on TV (I know they&#8217;re authors, but I haven&#8217;t read any work by either writer). Several seemingly unrelated actions take place across a period of time from the early seventies to through to more years in the Cambridgeshire area. Finally we&#8217;re introduced to Jackson Brodie, a private investigator, who begins to get involved with some of the people linked with each of the cases.<br \/>\nAs things progress, more deep and dark secrets reveal themselves.<br \/>\nI won&#8217;t say much else because it&#8217;d spoil it. Overall it was a perfectly good book &#8211; not great, but not bad either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d not read any of Kate Atkinson&#8217;s books before, although I&#8217;ve seen them riding high in the bestsellers for a while. So I didn&#8217;t really know what to expect when I started Case Histories. What we have is something akin to one of those Barbara Vine or Minnette Walters crime things you see on TV [&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-1215","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\/1215","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=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}