{"id":1854,"date":"2014-06-14T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T15:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:32:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:32:56","slug":"greenwood-cocaine-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2014\/06\/greenwood-cocaine-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwood, Kerry: <cite>Cocaine Blues<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More backlog clearing: <strong>Kerry Greenwood&#8217;s <cite>Cocaine Blues<\/cite> is the first in the Phryne Fisher mystery series<\/strong>, set in Australia in the 1920s. I got it one day when it was free from Amazon and heard it recommended by various people.<\/p>\n<p>This was very fluffy and not very difficult, as mysteries go. I don&#8217;t mind the wish-fulfillment fantasies that are Phryne&#8217;s life, but I found the book&#8217;s head-hopping very distracting, and I am pretty dubious about the villain being (spoilers, <a href=\"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/rot-13\/\">ROT-13<\/a>) rvgure na rivy nfrkhny be fbzrbar rkgerzryl genhzngvmrq ol frkhny nohfr, naq orvat riraghnyyl birepbzr ol ure bja erihyfvba gbjneq frk. So, not a successful book for me.<\/p>\n<p>There is a TV show that people seem to enjoy, which would at least avoid the head-hopping problem, though I&#8217;ve so little time that I can&#8217;t imagine I&#8217;ll ever get around to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More backlog clearing: Kerry Greenwood&#8217;s Cocaine Blues is the first in the Phryne Fisher mystery series, set in Australia in the 1920s. I got it one day when it was free from Amazon and heard it recommended by various people. This was very fluffy and not very difficult, as mysteries go. I don&#8217;t mind the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2014\/06\/greenwood-cocaine-blues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greenwood, Kerry: <cite>Cocaine Blues<\/cite>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6],"tags":[231],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-mystery","tag-greenwood-kerry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}