{"id":350,"date":"2003-07-16T10:16:25","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T10:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/07\/aftermath\/"},"modified":"2003-07-16T10:16:25","modified_gmt":"2003-07-16T10:16:25","slug":"aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My book reading is playing its usual game of jumping around a little, but having quite enjoyed slugging back the last Inspector Banks book I read, I picked up another at the weekend. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0330489348\">Aftermath<\/a>, the crime &#8211; a very grisly one &#8211; has already been committed and the killer is fighting for his life within the first pages, so where does that leave Banks?<br \/>\nWell things aren&#8217;t quite that simple, and the story moves at a pace, picking up threads of plenty of contemporary and less contermporary crime stories of the time (well 2001 when this was written) &#8211; with a fictionalised Tony Martin who shot a burglar to his house as a bit of a backstory, and references to the Cleveland abuse scandals of the early nineties.<br \/>\nAnyway, a quick page turner, and now I&#8217;m in a dilemma. The next volume is out in paperback in September according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0330489356\">Amazon<\/a>. But in the meantime, I could start at the beginning of the sequence. Not that I don&#8217;t have a lot to read already&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book reading is playing its usual game of jumping around a little, but having quite enjoyed slugging back the last Inspector Banks book I read, I picked up another at the weekend. In Aftermath, the crime &#8211; a very grisly one &#8211; has already been committed and the killer is fighting for his life [&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-350","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\/350","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=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}