{"id":12443,"date":"2019-05-16T17:30:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T21:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12443"},"modified":"2019-05-16T17:30:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T21:30:33","slug":"thread-of-truth-by-jeff-shelby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12443","title":{"rendered":"‘Thread of Truth,’ by Jeff Shelby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I\u2019ve been going through<\/strong> Jeff Shelby\u2019s \u201cThread Novels,\u201d starring former cop and current lost kid locater, Joe Tyler. This is the last book published to date, as far as I can tell, so tomorrow I\u2019ll have a review from a different Jeff Shelby series. His books aren\u2019t without their flaws, but I like the writing and the damaged main characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In many ways, Thread of Truth<\/a><\/em> is a riff on the same theme as the book I reviewed last night. Again a young man has disappeared, and Joe Tyler is asked to try to find him. Again the lost kid is a recovering drug user, who has been clean for a while, but may have been involved in something else dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Tyler has given up teaching now, a career he never\nreally liked much. So when Desmond Locker\u2019s parents ask him to find their\nmissing son, he takes the job. The boy\u2019s girlfriend has just given birth to his\nbaby, and he had lots of plans for the future. He had not gone back to drugs,\neveryone insists. He\u2019d been working hard and saving his money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But his boss says he hasn\u2019t given him the overtime he\u2019s been\ntalking about. So where did his money come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will be no easy answers, and little good news. Many people are hiding secrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These books are pretty low key for their genre, but I like that just fine. I enjoyed Thread of Truth<\/em> as I have the rest of the series. Recommended, with minor cautions for language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been going through Jeff Shelby\u2019s \u201cThread Novels,\u201d starring former cop and current lost kid locater, Joe Tyler. This is the last book published to date, as far as I can tell, so tomorrow I\u2019ll have a review from a different Jeff Shelby series. His books aren\u2019t without their flaws, but I like the writing … Continue reading ‘Thread of Truth,’ by Jeff Shelby<\/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":[1409,1451,3125],"class_list":["post-12443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-jeff-shelby","tag-joe-tyler","tag-thread-of-truth"],"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\/12443","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=12443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}