{"id":344,"date":"2003-07-11T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2003-07-11T09:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/07\/cold_is_the_gra\/"},"modified":"2003-07-11T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2003-07-11T09:48:20","slug":"cold_is_the_gra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/cold_is_the_gra\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold Is The Grave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0330482165\">second<\/a> Inspector Banks novel I&#8217;ve was probably slightly better than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000139.html\">first<\/a> and I rattled through it at a rate of knots.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m reasonably taken with this detective, although sometimes you do feel that there aren&#8217;t enough dead ends. Everything in this book lead in the same direction &#8211; but I suppose the same could be said of all crime fiction and TV series. There&#8217;s rarely a totally innocent character involved.  I&#8217;ll be reading some more, once funds allow, and my &#8220;to read&#8221; list dwindles a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second Inspector Banks novel I&#8217;ve was probably slightly better than the first and I rattled through it at a rate of knots. I&#8217;m reasonably taken with this detective, although sometimes you do feel that there aren&#8217;t enough dead ends. Everything in this book lead in the same direction &#8211; but I suppose the same [&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-344","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\/344","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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}