{"id":304,"date":"2008-10-27T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=304"},"modified":"2008-10-27T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T13:53:00","slug":"case-histories-by-kate-atkinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2008\/10\/case-histories-by-kate-atkinson.html","title":{"rendered":"Case Histories by Kate Atkinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billed on the cover and on Amazon as a mystery, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000FDFW5A\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Case Histories<\/a> is both more and less.  As a mystery, it&#8217;s transparent, but I doubt the author intended it to be a whodunnit.  No, it&#8217;s more of a series of interrelated character sketches in a crime-based framework.  The characters have all been scarred by past tragedies and are now coming together through a series of unlikely coincidences to heal some of those wounds.<\/p>\n<p>In no way is this a realistic book, but it is an entertaining one.  I enjoyed the characters but could have done with a little less plot (attempts on the detective&#8217;s life are my least-favorite crime-series cliche).  The book wraps up a little too neatly at the end but since you&#8217;ve come to care for the characters, it&#8217;s nice to see them happily settled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billed on the cover and on Amazon as a mystery, Case Histories is both more and less. As a mystery, it&#8217;s transparent, but I doubt the author intended it to be a whodunnit. No, it&#8217;s more of a series of interrelated character sketches in a crime-based framework. The characters have all been scarred by past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mysteryhorrorsuspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}