{"id":1314,"date":"2005-12-08T23:48:25","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T23:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2005\/12\/the_colorado_ki\/"},"modified":"2005-12-08T23:48:25","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T23:48:25","slug":"the_colorado_ki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/the_colorado_ki\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colorado Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0843955848&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nI guess that Hard Case Crime must have been over the moon when one of the kings of fiction deigned to write a novel for them. I&#8217;m also guessing that he&#8217;s so powerful a literary figure that he doesn&#8217;t have to worry about his publishers getting upset when he writes for another one.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not really a Stephen King fan, although I do admire him from afar. The last of his books I read was Christine when it was published in paperback &#8211; probably when I was still at school. But loving this publishing house&#8217;s work, I didn&#8217;t hesitate to jump on this novel.<br \/>\nUnlike any of the other novels I&#8217;ve read in this series, this one has a contemporary setting. That&#8217;s not to say that it doesn&#8217;t mostly take place in the past, although not as far into the past as the usual 50s\/60s settings.<br \/>\nIn this instance a junior reporter is being basically told the tale by two elderly newspaper editors of a dead man who&#8217;d shown up on the remote beach of their small New England island. At first there was no clue as to his identity or how he&#8217;d ended up there. Slowly the mystery begins to become unravelled, but this is an unusual tale. It&#8217;s particularly unusual in the sense that the ending is not what you expect. And I don&#8217;t mean some kind of twist in the tale.  In case you read this, I won&#8217;t say any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that Hard Case Crime must have been over the moon when one of the kings of fiction deigned to write a novel for them. I&#8217;m also guessing that he&#8217;s so powerful a literary figure that he doesn&#8217;t have to worry about his publishers getting upset when he writes for another one. I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}