{"id":1319,"date":"2004-09-06T17:06:17","date_gmt":"2004-09-06T17:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1319.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:16","slug":"val-mcdermid-the-mermaids-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/09\/06\/val-mcdermid-the-mermaids-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"Val McDermid &#8211; <i>The Mermaids Singing<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this a bit hard to get into at first&#8211;that main characters of Tony Hill and Carol Jordan took a while to come together for me&#8211;but after the half-way mark, things really started moving.  By present-day standards <i>The Mermaids Singing<\/i> is a fairly predictable psych profiling\/serial killer thriller, but the way McDermid interweaves the strands of the investigation together with the characters&#8217; personal lives is entertaining.  It&#8217;s very clearly the beginning of a series, and based on this first episode I&#8217;ll certainly be reading more McDermid in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this a bit hard to get into at first&#8211;that main characters of Tony Hill and Carol Jordan took a while to come together for me&#8211;but after the half-way mark, things really started moving. By present-day standards The Mermaids Singing is a fairly predictable psych profiling\/serial killer thriller, but the way McDermid interweaves 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":[58],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_35_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","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=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}