{"id":1596,"date":"2006-08-08T20:38:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T20:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2006\/08\/sun_and_shadow\/"},"modified":"2006-08-08T20:38:33","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T20:38:33","slug":"sun_and_shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/sun_and_shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun and Shadow"},"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=0099472058&#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 \/>\nAnother day, another Scandinavean detective. I&#8217;m quite probably addicted to them now. Ake Edwardson is a popular Swedish crime writer who&#8217;s written a series of novels featuring Inspector Winter. This is the first of them to be translated into English although it&#8217;s clearly not the first in the actual series. It always perplexes me a bit that we invariably get series such as these published out of order. I bet the Swedish versions of Harry Potter have been published in order.<br \/>\nThere seems to be a relatively well-observed law in crime fiction that either we open with the crime, or scene of the crime, or we have some prose that&#8217;s coming from inside the mind of the killer. While we do get a bit of the latter, unusually, this book takes a leisurely 150 pages before we actually learn of the crime committed.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s not to say that nothing&#8217;s going on as that couldn&#8217;t be further from the truth. But nothing in this book is really rushed. The investigation takes time, and we pass that time.<br \/>\nI thought it was a great book and Edwardson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1843432013\">next<\/a> in English has just been published in hardback so I&#8217;m sure a few more are to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another Scandinavean detective. I&#8217;m quite probably addicted to them now. Ake Edwardson is a popular Swedish crime writer who&#8217;s written a series of novels featuring Inspector Winter. This is the first of them to be translated into English although it&#8217;s clearly not the first in the actual series. It always perplexes me a [&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-1596","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\/1596","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=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}