{"id":37,"date":"2006-08-21T14:38:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T20:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-08-21T14:38:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T20:38:34","slug":"the-eve-of-anna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"The Eve of Anna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"entry\">I read <em>The Eye of Anna<\/em> by Anne Wingate about two weeks ago. I often try to throw in a mystery\/detective novel into the mix from time to time and I understood that when it comes to forensic science, Anne Wingate knows her stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I will agree \u2014 Anne Wingate does know her stuff when it comes to police procedure and forensic science. Her premise was also good \u2014 throw the characters, including a serial killer, into the middle of a hurricane. Shake well.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I am forced to say that this book is just okay. The serial killer seemed cliched to me with his dislike of \u201cwanton women just like <em>her<\/em>.\u201d Anne Wingate used his point of view to create suspense but honestly, I think the book would have been better if she had left those scenes out.<\/p>\n<p>If you are particularly fond of serial killers and police procedurals, though, you may like this better than I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read The Eye of Anna by Anne Wingate about two weeks ago. I often try to throw in a mystery\/detective novel into the mix from time to time and I understood that when it comes to forensic science, Anne Wingate knows her stuff. I will agree \u2014 Anne Wingate does know her stuff when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}