{"id":1729,"date":"2005-09-28T22:03:54","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T22:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1729.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:12","slug":"christopher-brookmyre-the-sacred-art-of-stealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/09\/28\/christopher-brookmyre-the-sacred-art-of-stealing\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Brookmyre &#8211; <i>The Sacred Art Of Stealing<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the follow-up to Brookmyre&#8217;s earlier book, <i>A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away<\/i>.  Angelique de Xavia finds herself dealing with a group of bank robbers who dress up as clowns, and falls under the charms of the group&#8217;s leader.  The crimes are beautifully executed, and the cop\/robber love dynamic is played out with gusto.  The book starts off a bit slow, as Brookmyre spends a lot of time digging around in the characters&#8217; minds, but once things get moving, it&#8217;s as fast and funny as anything he&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the follow-up to Brookmyre&#8217;s earlier book, A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away. Angelique de Xavia finds herself dealing with a group of bank robbers who dress up as clowns, and falls under the charms of the group&#8217;s leader. The crimes are beautifully executed, and the cop\/robber love dynamic is played out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1729","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\/1729","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=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}