{"id":534,"date":"2004-01-11T22:59:50","date_gmt":"2004-01-11T22:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/01\/dont_look_back\/"},"modified":"2004-01-11T22:59:50","modified_gmt":"2004-01-11T22:59:50","slug":"dont_look_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/dont_look_back\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Look Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading as many Mankell novels as have appeared in English (at least in the UK), I decided to stretch a little further afield and move from Sweden into Norway for my next detective fiction.<br \/>\nKarin Fossum was a name that was mentioned, so I picked up the slim <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0099452138\">Don&#8217;t Look Back<\/a>, and fairly rattled through it. It&#8217;s an &#8220;Inspector Sejer&#8221; Mystery, and although not the first in the series, it is the first to have made it into English.<br \/>\nThe book is set in a village on the edge of a mountain, somewhere just outside Oslo, where a young girl is found dead. As might be expceted is such a novel, there is more going on in the village than might at first be apparent.<br \/>\nI quite enjoyed the book, although the descriptor &#8220;procedural&#8221; might be a little more accurate than normal in this case. There aren&#8217;t any unguessable plot twists, although the story is disturbing. In many respects these Scandinavean novels are really very British in their outlook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0099452138<\/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-534","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\/534","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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}