{"id":2169,"date":"2008-01-10T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T21:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2008\/01\/voices\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T21:00:04","slug":"voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices"},"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=0099494175&#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 \/>\nVoices is the third in the Inspector Erlendur series, following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001626.html\">Silence of the Grave<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001430.html\">Tainted Blood<\/a>. Erneldur is a fairly dour Icelandic detective, and this novel is set in the run-up to Christmas at a large Reykjavik hotel. When Santa&#8217;s needed for a party at the hotel, a maid goes to look for quiet old doorman who lives in the hotel&#8217;s basement. But she finds him dead.<br \/>\nErlendur is a detective with personal problems &#8211; not least of which is his ex-junkie daughter, and the memory of a brother who died when he was young and for whom he still feels guilt.<br \/>\nAs is the way with these books, nothing is quite as it seems with the dead man once having been a child star, some dubious tourists, and shifty hotel workers. The Erlendur books aren&#8217;t the fastest paced, but I still enjoy the bleakness of them. They&#8217;re well worth reading if you like your Scandinavian crime fiction &#8211; and there&#8217;s plenty of it about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voices is the third in the Inspector Erlendur series, following Silence of the Grave and Tainted Blood. Erneldur is a fairly dour Icelandic detective, and this novel is set in the run-up to Christmas at a large Reykjavik hotel. When Santa&#8217;s needed for a party at the hotel, a maid goes to look for quiet [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","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=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}