{"id":887,"date":"2011-10-01T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=887"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:57:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:57:25","slug":"a-death-in-the-summer-by-benjamin-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=887","title":{"rendered":"A Death in the Summer by Benjamin Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Death-in-the-Summer.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Death-in-the-Summer-199x300.jpg\" width=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I just finished a who dunnit by an author new to me, <b><span style=\"color: red;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/benjaminblackbooks.com\/index.htm\">Benjamin Black<\/a>, <\/span><\/b> the pen name of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Banville\" rel=\"wikipedia\" title=\"John Banville\">John Banville<\/a>. The book is set in Dublin, Ireland where Richard Jewell, aka &#8220;Diamond Dick&#8221; a rich powerful newspaperman is found with his head blown off by a shotgun. Crusty old detective Hackett calls in his friend Quirke a medical examiner to help solve the crime. Quirke, who is well named by the way, quickly gets personally involved with Jewell&#8217;s beautiful french wife, Francoise.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Hackett and Quirke are crusty old guys with a few nicks and scrapes. The writing is superb and the &nbsp;plotting tight. This was a great find and I recommend it highly. Get it at your local library, I did, save some bucks.<\/p>\n<p>I rate this book 3.5 stars out of 5. It&#8217;s a great book.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h6 style=\"font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/books\/2015601692_br17black.html?syndication=rss\">&#8216;A Death in Summer&#8217;: Benjamin Black&#8217;s fourth mystery featuring his intuitive investigator Quirke<\/a> (seattletimes.nwsource.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/zemified_e.png\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished a who dunnit by an author new to me, Benjamin Black, the pen name of John Banville. The book is set in Dublin, Ireland where Richard Jewell, aka &#8220;Diamond Dick&#8221; a rich powerful newspaperman is found with his head blown off by a shotgun. Crusty old detective Hackett calls in his friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}