{"id":339,"date":"2005-06-27T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=339"},"modified":"2005-06-27T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T02:38:00","slug":"crombie_deborah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/06\/crombie_deborah\/","title":{"rendered":"Crombie, Deborah: All Shall Be Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"111992640851595701\"><\/a> <a name=\"link_111992640851595701\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong><cite>All Shall Be Well<\/cite>, by Deborah Crombie<\/strong>, is a mystery novel featuring two members of Scotland Yard, Superintendent Duncan James (Superintendent appears not to be a terminal rank, unlike at a U.S. school or prison) and Sergeant Gemma James. I saw a later novel in this series reviewed as an audiobook, and thought it sounded interesting enough to check the first book out of the library.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually the second book in the series; I don&#8217;t know where I got the idea it was the first. It appears to stand alone. This is a short, tight novel about the life and death of Jasmine Dent, a neighbor of Duncan&#8217;s who was terminally ill with cancer. It looks like suicide, but Duncan has his doubts, and as you might expect from the genre, he&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>The exploration of Jasmine&#8217;s life unfolds satisfyingly, and Duncan and James are perfectly agreeable. I think the mystery is probably fair, though I didn&#8217;t bother trying to figure it out since I expected the revelations of the past to hold the vital clue. This struck me as nicely understated and somehow respectful. It was a pleasant way to pass a subway ride and a lunch, and I might pick up more later, but I&#8217;m in no great hurry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Shall Be Well, by Deborah Crombie, is a mystery novel featuring two members of Scotland Yard, Superintendent Duncan James (Superintendent appears not to be a terminal rank, unlike at a U.S. school or prison) and Sergeant Gemma James. I saw a later novel in this series reviewed as an audiobook, and thought it sounded &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2005\/06\/crombie_deborah\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crombie, Deborah: All Shall Be Well&#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":[48,6],"tags":[181],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-mystery","tag-crombie-deborah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","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=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}