{"id":15322,"date":"2021-04-30T18:29:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T22:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15322"},"modified":"2021-05-07T19:17:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T23:17:29","slug":"look-down-by-ed-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15322","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Look Down,&#8217; by Ed Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51gRogf75aL.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of &quot;Look Down&quot; novel saying back of soldier facing empty street and crumbled house\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The third entry <\/strong>in Ed Church\u2019s promising Brook Deelman police series is not strictly part of the series, but a novella giving us some background on Brook\u2019s best friend, Welsh-born detective \u201cJonboy\u201d Davies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Look-Down-Jonboy-Brook-Deelman-ebook\/dp\/B08R7M2121\/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&amp;keywords=look+down+ed+church&amp;qid=1619820434&amp;sr=8-6&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">Look Down <\/a>is a flashback to 2004, when Jonboy served as a Royal Military Police investigator in Kosovo. Jonboy is leading a team of four Ghurkas, plus an attractive woman interpreter. Their task is to examine houses destroyed in a massacre, documenting the damage. But as they survey one particular village, people talk about the \u201cred house\u201d down the street, which was hardly damaged. When Jonboy and the team knock on the door and ask to look around, they find it inhabited by a number of soldiers, who tell them they\u2019re not welcome, and this house is none of their business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, Jonboy speaks with a local blind man, who tells him cryptically that if he wants the secret of the red house, he needs to \u201clook down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What Jonboy and his team eventually discover is shocking, shameful, and a potential political bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Look Down <\/em>was a pretty good read. Jonboy is an appealing character, and the mystery is compelling. Also, we\u2019re reunited at one point with an intriguing character from the first book, a mysterious assassin called \u201cThe Tourist.\u201d The Tourist is trying to work out his personal karma by killing a few people whose absence will improve the world, and he seems to be the instrument of whatever force of fate is in charge of this particular fictional universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third entry in Ed Church\u2019s promising Brook Deelman police series is not strictly part of the series, but a novella giving us some background on Brook\u2019s best friend, Welsh-born detective \u201cJonboy\u201d Davies. Look Down is a flashback to 2004, when Jonboy served as a Royal Military Police investigator in Kosovo. Jonboy is leading a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15322\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Look Down,&#8217; by Ed Church<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[3689,3696],"class_list":["post-15322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-ed-church","tag-look-down"],"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\/15322","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=15322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15345,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15322\/revisions\/15345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}