{"id":172,"date":"2010-07-23T16:07:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T23:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-11-11T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T23:42:06","slug":"hounded-to-death-a-novel-by-rita-mae-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Hounded to Death: A Novel by Rita Mae Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"workCoverImage alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0345512375.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg\" alt=\"Hounded to Death by Rita Mae Brown\" width=\"112\" height=\"173\" \/>After a hound show at a hunting club, a man, naturally hated and who mistreats animals, is murdered. Later, a woman turns up as an apparent suicide, and another body surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>I found the book a little difficult to get into, it is book seven in the &#8220;Sister&#8221; Jane Arnold series, and perhaps earlier books would help understand the characters.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the book is in dialog form. I found the dialog natural and well written, and the people were well formed. There seemed to be too little investigation, I didn&#8217;t feel there was adequate information for a reader to actually figure it out.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that did bother me was that the animals talked. Not to humans, or at least the humans didn&#8217;t understand them. I tried to interpret it as what humans interpret from their pets, but it did go beyond that. The hounds revealed the smell of the killer. It felt like something I shouldn&#8217;t have known, but it didn&#8217;t come into the solution.<\/p>\n<p>The solution seemed to appear out of the blue in the late pages of the book. This just isn&#8217;t my style of book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a hound show at a hunting club, a man, naturally hated and who mistreats animals, is murdered. Later, a woman turns up as an apparent suicide, and another body surfaces. I found the book a little difficult to get into, it is book seven in the &#8220;Sister&#8221; Jane Arnold series, and perhaps earlier books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.randolphking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}