{"id":13312,"date":"2020-01-31T18:02:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T23:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13312"},"modified":"2020-01-31T18:02:30","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T23:02:30","slug":"murder-board-by-brian-shea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=13312","title":{"rendered":"‘Murder Board,’ by Brian Shea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A better than average<\/strong> novel by an author new to me. Always nice to find. Tonight\u2019s book is Murder Board<\/a><\/em>, by Brian Shea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Michael Kelly, Boston police detective, family comes\nbefore everything. For the Rakowskis, a Polish-American crime family, the same rule\ngoes. But they mean very different things by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Kelly is a Boston Homicide cop. He\u2019s the rookie on\nthe squad, though he\u2019s been a cop for years. Trouble has followed him, causing\nhim to restart his career more than once. But he thinks he\u2019s where he belongs\nnow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a 13-year-old girl\u2019s body is discovered in a shallow grave in a blighted neighborhood, Michael takes a personal interest. He grew up in this neighborhood himself, and still has friends here, on both sides of the law. But the dead girl came from an upscale suburb. How did she end up here? Who killed her, and why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Searching for answers, Michael, assisted by a (beautiful, of course) female detective from the Sexual Crimes squad, begins a dangerous investigation into the human trafficking industry. Gangsters will threaten them, and politicians will pressure them. But Michael Kelly does not let go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found Murder Board <\/em>an exciting and compelling read. The writing is a little under the top rank \u2013 author Shea has a problem with word choice sometimes \u2013 but the story itself grabbed me. I\u2019d describe Shea as somewhere between Michael Connelly and Joseph Wambaugh in themes and tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended. Cautions for disturbing scenes, but I didn\u2019t notice\nany obscene language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A better than average novel by an author new to me. Always nice to find. Tonight\u2019s book is Murder Board, by Brian Shea. For Michael Kelly, Boston police detective, family comes before everything. For the Rakowskis, a Polish-American crime family, the same rule goes. But they mean very different things by it. Michael Kelly is … Continue reading ‘Murder Board,’ by Brian Shea<\/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":[396,1848,1946],"class_list":["post-13312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-brian-shea","tag-michael-kelly","tag-murder-board"],"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\/13312","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=13312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}