{"id":795,"date":"2004-08-10T21:05:06","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T21:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/08\/the_winter_quee\/"},"modified":"2004-08-10T21:05:06","modified_gmt":"2004-08-10T21:05:06","slug":"the_winter_quee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/the_winter_quee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winter Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boris Akunin is a successful Russian author who&#8217;s written a series of historical crime novels set in Tsarist Russia at the end of the 19th century. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0753817594\">The Winter Queen<\/a> introduces us to the young detective Erast Fandorin and his investigation into a seemingly motiveless suicide in a park. The story leads away from Moscow and St Petersburg by way of London, before returning, as a global conspiracy is uncovered.<br \/>\nI can thoroughly recommend this book. Sometimes the protagonist seems to stumbled from crisis to crisis, but you can&#8217;t fail to like him and enjoy the story where nothing is as it seems. I&#8217;m already looking forward to the paperback release of the follow up, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0753818434\">Leviathan<\/a>, later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0753817594<\/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-795","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\/795","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=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}