{"id":7863,"date":"2023-08-21T12:37:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=7863"},"modified":"2023-08-21T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:47:09","slug":"only-murders-in-the-dales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/only-murders-in-the-dales\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Murders in the Dales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41XBVhbGDWL._SY346_.jpg\" alt=\"Grimm Up North: A Yorkshire Murder Mystery (DCI Harry Grimm Crime Thrillers Book 1) by [David J. Gatward]\" \/>I happen to be going to the Yorkshire Dales in September, and I came across this series on Kindle Unlimited while browsing for a UK Police Procedural to read. That it takes place in places I&#8217;m going to visit is, well, a little creepy, but as a fan of UK Police dramas, it&#8217;s quite good.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever had the eerie feeling watching<em> All Creatures Great and Small<\/em> that any minute a quirky DCI would show up to solve a grim murder, this will put your mind at ease. DCI Harry Grimm is the classic tough city cop sent to the country to chill, but trouble doesn&#8217;t have to follow him, it&#8217;s already there waiting.<\/p>\n<p>At first, his secondment to the bucolic countryside populated by farmers and tourists seems like the perfect place to go stir crazy, but then a teen goes missing, and soon enough there&#8217;s a body by a lake and despite his new Superindendent&#8217;s admonishments to not disrupt the idyl of the dales, as if his IED scarred face wasn&#8217;t enough to do the job proper like, Harry just has to roll up his sleeves and do the job.<\/p>\n<p>As the first book, it naturally introduces the recurring cast, all of whom turn out to be pretty credible cops, considering Harry&#8217;s expectations, and you have to wonder if the BBC might want to give this a look. After all, they&#8217;ve already got the sets built&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Very nicely done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I happen to be going to the Yorkshire Dales in September, and I came across this series on Kindle Unlimited while browsing for a UK Police Procedural to read. That it takes place in places I&#8217;m going to visit is, well, a little creepy, but as a fan of UK Police dramas, it&#8217;s quite good. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7865,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions\/7865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}