{"id":2002,"date":"2016-06-04T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2016-06-16T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T21:58:48","slug":"the-lake-house-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"The Lake House: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Kate Morton, 2015, Kindle Edition, Atria Books, Reprint Edition, sold by Simon and Schuster Digital Sales, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a mystery about a cold case disappearance of a young boy in Cornwall, England.\u00c2\u00a0A woman detective, who is temporarily suspended from her job for alleged misconduct, visits her grandfather who has recently moved to Cornwall after the death of his wife.\u00c2\u00a0 While there she becomes interested in what happened when the young boy disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>The book is well-written but didn&#8217;t seem to offer much in the way of suspense as the disappearance occurred many years in the past.\u00c2\u00a0 Much of the narrative delves into the motives and thoughts of persons who had been dead for many years.\u00c2\u00a0 Additionally, the final resolution of the mystery depends, as many mysteries seem to do, on a somewhat hard to believe coincidence.<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 Kate Morton, 2015, Kindle Edition, Atria Books, Reprint Edition, sold by Simon and Schuster Digital Sales, Inc. This book is a mystery about a cold case disappearance of a young boy in Cornwall, England.\u00c2\u00a0A woman detective, who is temporarily <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=2002\"><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-2002","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\/2002","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=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}