{"id":424,"date":"2003-09-09T22:53:21","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T22:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2003\/09\/tears_of_the_gi\/"},"modified":"2003-09-09T22:53:21","modified_gmt":"2003-09-09T22:53:21","slug":"tears_of_the_gi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/tears_of_the_gi\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears of the Giraffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Graham McCall has now written five novels in the <i>No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective Agency<\/i> series, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0349116652\">this<\/a> is the second, published here in its Abacus imprint.<br \/>\nTo be honest, not a whole lot happens in these books, with a couple of cases being solved with relatively minimal effort, but we learn lots about the lives of the people of Garabone in Botswana. I absolutely lapped up this book (finishing it very quickly indeed &#8211; demanding they&#8217;re not). So when&#8217;s the next novel published in Abacus? Answer: December, March and May for the next three!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Graham McCall has now written five novels in the No. 1 Ladies&#8217; Detective Agency series, and this is the second, published here in its Abacus imprint. To be honest, not a whole lot happens in these books, with a couple of cases being solved with relatively minimal effort, but we learn lots about the [&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-424","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\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}