{"id":13109,"date":"2019-11-27T19:17:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T00:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13109"},"modified":"2019-11-27T19:17:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T00:17:04","slug":"bloody-christmas-by-caimh-mcdonnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13109","title":{"rendered":"‘Bloody Christmas,’ by Caimh McDonnell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Caimh McDonnell\u2019s series<\/strong> of comic Irish mysteries, most featuring big, drunken detective Bunny McGarry, has been one of the delights of my recent reading life. Bloody Christmas<\/a><\/em>, which fits into the series, is a special edition novella, available only until Christmas. Its sales support an Irish charity for the homeless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bloody Christmas<\/em> is set way back near the start, just after the end of A Man With One of Those Faces<\/em>. Bunny has been undergoing psychological evaluation after throwing a senior officer off a building, something he finds annoying and unreasonable. But now he\u2019s managed to get his sanity officially verified, and is celebrating in his favorite pub, when a man tries to assassinate him in the men\u2019s room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of beating the man bloody, however, Bunny listens to\nhis tale of woe. The man (who\u2019s there with his pregnant wife, named Mary [very\nsubtle]), is the victim of criminals who\u2019ve kidnapped their son. Well, it\u2019s\nChristmas, a time for good works. Bunny has a few ideas on how to find the boy,\nand he puts a plan into motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s all completely implausible, and completely hilarious.\nBunny is at his profane, selectively brutal best, and I laughed out loud more\nthan once as he cuts a swathe through the underworld he understands so well. I\nhope it\u2019s not too much of a spoiler to tell you that it all turns out more\nperfectly than anything has a right to in this naughty world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highly recommended, with cautions for adult themes and\nprofanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caimh McDonnell\u2019s series of comic Irish mysteries, most featuring big, drunken detective Bunny McGarry, has been one of the delights of my recent reading life. Bloody Christmas, which fits into the series, is a special edition novella, available only until Christmas. Its sales support an Irish charity for the homeless. Bloody Christmas is set way … Continue reading ‘Bloody Christmas,’ by Caimh McDonnell<\/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":[355,422,433],"class_list":["post-13109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-bloody-christmas","tag-bunny-mcgarry","tag-caimh-mcdonnell"],"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\/13109","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=13109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}