{"id":1848,"date":"2015-06-10T20:46:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T02:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2015-06-10T20:57:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T02:57:37","slug":"the-private-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1848","title":{"rendered":"The Private Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">by P.D. James Unabridged CD Audiobook (An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery)<\/span> <span class=\"a-size-medium a-color-secondary a-text-normal\">Audio CD, <\/span><span class=\"a-size-medium a-color-secondary a-text-normal\">2008, r<\/span><span class=\"author notFaded\" data-width=\"\">ead by Rosalyn Landor <\/span><\/p>\n<p>This book is a murder mystery about some murders that take place at an estate that has been converted to a plastic surgery clinic.\u00c2\u00a0 It is beautifully written but that might be it&#8217;s major flaw.\u00c2\u00a0 P.D. James tends to be overly wordy in this novel and, while the prose is very well done and the characters are convincing, the plot is thin and the book suffers as it plods along.\u00c2\u00a0 There are absolutely no twists or turns as it goes from beginning to end.\u00c2\u00a0 Additionally, the reader has a very nice voice and does the characters well, but her voice is soft and soporific which also takes away from any excitement that a murder mystery should generate.\u00c2\u00a0 I have rated it a bit higher than it probably deserves because of James&#8217; good writing, but, for a murder mystery, this is\u00c2\u00a0a not very suspenseful. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\" alt=\"3 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by P.D. James Unabridged CD Audiobook (An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery) Audio CD, 2008, read by Rosalyn Landor This book is a murder mystery about some murders that take place at an estate that has been converted to a plastic surgery <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1848\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,36],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}