{"id":2544,"date":"2010-09-01T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2010-09-01T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T13:00:21","slug":"local-connection-rag-and-bone-by-james-r-benn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=2544","title":{"rendered":"Local Connection: Rag and Bone by James R. Benn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/rag-and-bone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2546 alignleft\" title=\"rag and bone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/rag-and-bone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a>Publisher&#8217;s Summary:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Billy is sent to London in the midst of a Luftwaffe bombing offensive to  investigate the murder of a Soviet official. There&#8217;s reason to believe  that the crime could be connected to the recent discovery of mass graves  in the Katyn Forest, where thousands of Polish officers were executed.  Is a killer is out there, targeting Soviet officials in revenge for the  Katyn Massacre? If so,\u00a0the diplomatic stakes couldn&#8217;t be higher as the  uneasy relationship between the Soviets and the other allied powers  hangs in the balance. Further complicating matters, Scotland Yard names  Billy&#8217;s friend Kaz, now working for the Polish government in exile, as  the prime suspect. Billy must track the killer through London&#8217;s criminal  underworld and save his friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BookPage gave <em>Rag and Bone<\/em>, a mystery novel featuring Boston cop Billy Boyle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpage.com\/reviews.php?id=10002703\" target=\"_blank\">a &#8220;Top Pick&#8221; review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher&#8217;s Summary: &#8220;Billy is sent to London in the midst of a Luftwaffe bombing offensive to investigate the murder of a Soviet official. There&#8217;s reason to believe that the crime could be connected to the recent discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest, where thousands of Polish officers were executed. Is a killer is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-connection"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-F2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}