{"id":13143,"date":"2019-12-09T16:39:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13143"},"modified":"2019-12-09T16:39:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:39:59","slug":"depraved-difference-by-j-robert-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13143","title":{"rendered":"‘Depraved Difference,’ by J. Robert Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If you like your thrillers<\/strong> equipped with major plot twists, Depraved Difference<\/a><\/em> by J. Robert Kennedy may be just what you\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Me, I\u2019m still thinking it over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aynslee Kai, an ambitious young TV journalist in Manhattan, starts\nreceiving videos by e-mail, videos that might make her career. A year ago a\ncouple thugs beat and kicked a young woman to death on the subway. Two more\nlow-lifes videoed the murder and shared it on the net, where it went viral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now someone has started identifying the onlookers, the\npeople caught on the video watching but doing nothing to help. Each onlooker is\nbeing hunted down and murdered, and each murder is filmed and sent to Aynslee.\nShe is shocked, but also energized by this big career break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She feels a little guilty, though, about not cooperating more with Detective Hayden Eldridge, a cop who\u2019s asked to see the videos before they\u2019re broadcast. She assists him to an extent, but her boss\u2019s priorities come first. This bothers her a bit, because she\u2019s developed a crush on the hunky Eldridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Author Kennedy is very good at surprising his readers, and there are several shockers in this story up until the very climax. There he blindsides you (unless you\u2019re a lot smarter than me) with a twist so bizarre I\u2019m still trying to decide whether he played fair with his readers or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oddly, this book is labeled Number One in the \u201cDetective Shakespeare\u201d\nseries. Justin Shakespeare is Eldridge\u2019s partner, and he doesn\u2019t even show up in\nthe book until the 40% point (on my Kindle). Shakespeare is mentioned often\nbefore that, but only as a fat, lazy time-server just putting in his time until\nretirement. We will gradually learn that there\u2019s more to him than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Depraved Difference<\/em> was a compelling read, and one you won\u2019t soon forget. I\u2019m still not sure whether I approve of the final twist, though. I also thought the character psychology kind of implausible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cautions for lots of violence and disturbing situations,\nplus strong language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you like your thrillers equipped with major plot twists, Depraved Difference by J. Robert Kennedy may be just what you\u2019re looking for. Me, I\u2019m still thinking it over. Aynslee Kai, an ambitious young TV journalist in Manhattan, starts receiving videos by e-mail, videos that might make her career. A year ago a couple thugs … Continue reading ‘Depraved Difference,’ by J. Robert Kennedy<\/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":[744,752,1338],"class_list":["post-13143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-depraved-difference","tag-detective-shakespeare","tag-j-robert-kennedy"],"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\/13143","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=13143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}