{"id":2548,"date":"2009-05-13T12:45:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2009\/05\/the_book_of_mur\/"},"modified":"2009-05-13T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T12:45:18","slug":"the_book_of_mur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/the_book_of_mur\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0349120919&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr&#038;npa=1\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nBack in 2005 I read a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001079.html\">The Oxford Murders<\/a> which was a perfectly enjoyable thriller set in Oxford around mathematics and murders by Argentinian author Guillermo Martinez.<br \/>\nIn the meantime, it&#8217;s been made into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0488604\/\">a film<\/a> which I&#8217;ve not seen, and wasn&#8217;t exactly well reviewed.<br \/>\nNow comes The Book of Murder, which is another tale quickly told. Told from the viewpoint of a unnamed, sometime novelist, and old aquaintance, Luciana, makes contact with him to tell him an unlikely story. Another, very successful novelist, Kloster, is murdering her family. And nobody will believe her.<br \/>\nThe set-up is pretty good, but sadly the story doesn&#8217;t really go anywhere, and as you dash through the 200 or so pages, you begin to realise just that.<br \/>\nMartinez paints a pretty good picture of a bitter Argentianian literary society that you feel he&#8217;s probably well aware of. Has he experienced some of the success that Kloster has experienced &#8211; you don&#8217;t get all that many Argentinian authors translated into English after all.<br \/>\nHe also tries to inject some maths into this, with some discussions on the nature of chance, but it feels a little worked upon.<br \/>\nThe Book of Murder is a perfectlty fine tale, but you might find yourself coming away from it a little underwhelmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2005 I read a book called The Oxford Murders which was a perfectly enjoyable thriller set in Oxford around mathematics and murders by Argentinian author Guillermo Martinez. In the meantime, it&#8217;s been made into a film which I&#8217;ve not seen, and wasn&#8217;t exactly well reviewed. Now comes The Book of Murder, which is [&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-2548","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\/2548","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=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}