{"id":231,"date":"2003-09-07T14:55:45","date_gmt":"2003-09-07T18:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=231"},"modified":"2003-09-07T14:55:45","modified_gmt":"2003-09-07T18:55:45","slug":"robb_jd_17_imit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/09\/robb_jd_17_imit\/","title":{"rendered":"Robb, J.D.: (17) Imitation in Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"link_imitation\" name=\"link_imitation\"><\/a>When we got off the plane at O&#8217;Hare, nearly the first thing I saw was <strong>J.D. Robb&#8217;s <cite>Imitation in Death<\/cite><\/strong>, the latest Eve\/Roarke novel. This was a pleasant surprise, as I&#8217;d seen it listed as a September release, so I snapped it up and read it on an antisocial afternoon. This is a serial killer novel, where the murderer models each of his killings on a different famous serial killer; it&#8217;s much in the classic police procedural mode, as there&#8217;s a finite universe of suspects, the reader doesn&#8217;t know the killer, and the clues to figure it out are gradually revealed as the protagonist investigates. Of the various ongoing character-based plot threads, the main one here is Peabody&#8217;s detective exam. Just the thing for a lazy, quiet vacation afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we got off the plane at O&#8217;Hare, nearly the first thing I saw was J.D. Robb&#8217;s Imitation in Death, the latest Eve\/Roarke novel. This was a pleasant surprise, as I&#8217;d seen it listed as a September release, so I snapped it up and read it on an antisocial afternoon. This is a serial killer &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2003\/09\/robb_jd_17_imit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robb, J.D.: (17) Imitation in Death&#8221;<\/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":[48,89,6],"tags":[360],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-in-death","category-mystery","tag-robb-j-d"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}