{"id":927,"date":"2011-08-19T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=927"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:58:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:58:43","slug":"the-dogs-of-rome-a-commissario-alec-blume-novel-by-conor-fitzgerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"The Dogs of Rome: A Commissario Alec Blume Novel by Conor Fitzgerald"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/dogs-of-rome-cover.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\/08\/dogs-of-rome-cover-210x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I found a new fictional private detective, Alec Blume, of the Rome Police. He was born an American to two academics who moved to Rome temporarily when he was just a kid. While there his parents were brutally murdered. He doesn&#8217;t really have any family or friends in the States that will take him so ends up staying in Rome making his own way and eventually becomes a police inspector. Very interesting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dogs-Rome-Commissario-Blume-Novel\/dp\/1608190153#_\"><span style=\"color: red;\"><b>The Dogs of Rome<\/b><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;by <a href=\"http:\/\/unitedagents.co.uk\/conor-fitzgerald\"><b><span style=\"color: red;\">Conor Fitzgerald<\/span><\/b><\/a> is the first in a new series of books to feature Alec Blume.<\/p>\n<p>The book starts with the very grisly,&nbsp;amateurish, murder of the husband of a&nbsp;prominent Italian politician.&nbsp;Alec Blume is called to lead the investigation and immediately runs into roadblocks put up by the upper management of the police. The result is a very gritty fast paced novel. It of course involves the Italian police and judicial system which is fascinatingly different from what we have in the US.<\/p>\n<p>I found the novel fascinating. I read most of it on the beach on vacation on my Kindle. I rate it four stars out of five overall, five stars out of five for a beach read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a new fictional private detective, Alec Blume, of the Rome Police. He was born an American to two academics who moved to Rome temporarily when he was just a kid. While there his parents were brutally murdered. He doesn&#8217;t really have any family or friends in the States that will take him so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5623,"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-927","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\/927"}],"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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}