{"id":556,"date":"2003-02-28T22:31:02","date_gmt":"2003-02-28T22:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-556.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:19","slug":"robert-crais-the-last-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/02\/28\/robert-crais-the-last-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Crais &#8211; <i>The Last Detective<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0385495838\"><i>L.A. Requiem<\/i><\/a> my hopes were running high for this follow-up.  How could Crais possibly crank it up another notch?  But he does.  And just as with <i>L.A. Requiem<\/i>, I cried at the end.  Bear in mind that Elvis Cole is one of my favourite fictional characters, and that I&#8217;m a romantic at heart.  But even so, it&#8217;s an amazing novel, with terrific plot, pace, and depth of character.  Crime fiction gets no better than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After L.A. Requiem my hopes were running high for this follow-up. How could Crais possibly crank it up another notch? But he does. And just as with L.A. Requiem, I cried at the end. Bear in mind that Elvis Cole is one of my favourite fictional characters, and that I&#8217;m a romantic at heart. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_5_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}