{"id":229,"date":"2019-01-12T20:34:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/?p=229"},"modified":"2024-09-11T12:09:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T11:09:18","slug":"whatever-next-screech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Next, Screech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"338\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/whatever-next.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/whatever-next.jpg 338w, https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/whatever-next-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This volume contains three more short murder mystery stories involving Detective Inspector St John Screech and his Sergeant Bruce Bravo.. The first &#8216;To Dig or Not To Dig&#8217; deals with the murder of a celebrated and politically active elderly actress who is found dead on her allotment. The local council, desperate to find revenue for housing, is considering selling the site to a property developer. But the actress Antonia Sheldrick is vehemently opposed. Is her murder connected to the proposed development or is there another motive behind it? The second story &#8216;Murder in his Eyes&#8217; concerns the strange goings on and mystery death of a man at a Surrey riding stables. Who is the killer behind this death? And what was the motive? In the third story &#8216;Going Going Gone&#8217; Inspector Screech tracks down the killer of a Salisbury art auctioneer at the time of the Salisbury poisonings and investigates the murky world of fraud and art crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the stories deal with serious issues, they are lighthearted and entertaining, a far cry from the grittiness and violence of many contemporary crime novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Whatever-Next-Screech-Anna-Hodgson-ebook\/dp\/B07L8M6P8M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy the kindle edition now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This volume contains three more short murder mystery stories involving Detective Inspector St John Screech and his Sergeant Bruce Bravo.. The first &#8216;To Dig or Not To Dig&#8217; deals with the murder of a celebrated and politically active elderly actress who is found dead on her allotment. The local council, desperate to find revenue for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annahodgson.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}