{"id":1169,"date":"2004-06-21T22:40:29","date_gmt":"2004-06-21T22:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1169.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","slug":"dennis-lehane-sacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/06\/21\/dennis-lehane-sacred\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Lehane &#8211; <i>Sacred<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started reading Lehane&#8217;s <i>Darkness, Take My Hand<\/i>, I was suspicious of his using the Serial Killer plot so early in his Kenzie and Gennaro series.  No worries on that account; <i>Darkness<\/i> turned out to be one of the best books I&#8217;d read in 2003.  In <i>Sacred<\/i>, Lehane picks up another staple of the detective genre: the Missing Person\/Religious Cult intersection.  As before, I was dubious.  Could he turn another tired trope into something stunningly fresh and exciting?  Answer: yes.  <i>Sacred<\/i> isn&#8217;t as profound and emotionally wrenching as <i>Darkness<\/i>, but it is fast-paced, tense, and rich with character.   Top stuff. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started reading Lehane&#8217;s Darkness, Take My Hand, I was suspicious of his using the Serial Killer plot so early in his Kenzie and Gennaro series. No worries on that account; Darkness turned out to be one of the best books I&#8217;d read in 2003. In Sacred, Lehane picks up another staple of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}