{"id":715,"date":"2004-06-10T23:52:27","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T23:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/06\/a_question_of_b\/"},"modified":"2004-06-10T23:52:27","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T23:52:27","slug":"a_question_of_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/a_question_of_b\/","title":{"rendered":"A Question of Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0752858963\">Ian Rankin novel<\/a> about his famed Inspector Rebus. It was a reasonably pleasurable way of passing the time, but I can&#8217;t say that this procedural over-inspired me, and I don&#8217;t see myself rushing to buy the rest of the Rebus novels. Certainly not at full price anyway.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s been a Dunblane type attack in a school and the murders don&#8217;t really make sense. Alongside that, Rebus is suspected of murder himself. The novel does a perfectly good job of telling the reader enough about a detective that many of its readers will be massively familiar with. This is what I always find trickiest about longrunning series of books &#8211; how to keep them accessible to new readers whilst not annoying diehard fans. I can&#8217;t really say how well this latter works until I&#8217;ve read some other books.  Overall &#8211; so-so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0752858963<\/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-715","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\/715","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=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}