{"id":12236,"date":"2019-03-19T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12236"},"modified":"2019-03-19T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T20:19:01","slug":"worth-killing-for-by-ed-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12236","title":{"rendered":"‘Worth Killing For,’ by Ed James"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Yesterday I reviewed<\/strong> Ed James\u2019s interesting first entry in his DI Fenchurch series, The Hope That Kill<\/em>s. I said I wasn\u2019t sure what I thought about the series yet. But now I\u2019ve read the second book, Worth Killing Fo<\/a><\/em>r, and I know what I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detective Inspector Simon Fenchurch is an obsessive policeman\nin tough east London. His daughter Chloe was kidnapped ten years ago, and he\u2019s been\nkilling himself on the job, hoping that somehow he\u2019ll find a clue about her\nfate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Worth Killing For<\/em>, he has kept a promise to his ex-wife. He\u2019s given up the search for Chloe, and they\u2019ve moved in together again. He\u2019s honored the letter of his promise, though he can\u2019t avoid thinking about the mystery, especially since his father, working as a volunteer on cold cases, is keeping the search up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time out, Fenchurch and his wife are on their way to a restaurant when they see a young woman stabbed to death in the street, before their very eyes. Fenchurch pursues the suspect and finally catches him. But fingerprints on the weapon prove he got the wrong young man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victim was a journalist, and shortly after her death, a colleague of hers is similarly murdered \u2013 again in front of Fenchurch\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a conspiracy here \u2013 and it goes beyond street gangs.\nVery rich and powerful people are manipulating young black men in order to\nfurther big business and political schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s where the author lost me. I finished the book,\nbut I won\u2019t be reading any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we\u2019ve dealing with here is Girl With the Dragoon Tattoo Syndrome. The books are written from a Marxist perspective, so that all crime ultimately emanates from the dark machinations of the Evil Rich and the Evil Conservatives. A major bad guy here is a pro-Brexit politician, and the opportunity is taken to link him to Trump, who is Worse Than Hitler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure author James doesn\u2019t want my filthy conservative\nmoney, so I won\u2019t read any more of the Fenchurch books. I regret that I\u2019ll\nnever learn what happened to Chloe \u2013 we\u2019re bound to find out eventually \u2013 but I\nalready know that she was the victim of some vast Right Wing Conspiracy, so I\ncan save the money on further details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I reviewed Ed James\u2019s interesting first entry in his DI Fenchurch series, The Hope That Kills. I said I wasn\u2019t sure what I thought about the series yet. But now I\u2019ve read the second book, Worth Killing For, and I know what I think. Detective Inspector Simon Fenchurch is an obsessive policeman in tough … Continue reading ‘Worth Killing For,’ by Ed James<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[760,838,3390],"class_list":["post-12236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-di-fenchurch","tag-ed-james","tag-worth-killing-for"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}