{"id":15335,"date":"2021-05-05T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T23:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15335"},"modified":"2021-05-07T18:20:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:20:35","slug":"the-truth-by-peter-grainger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=15335","title":{"rendered":"‘The Truth,’ by Peter Grainger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DC Smith is back. <\/strong>This is very good news. The hero of Peter Grainger\u2019s low-key police novels, an inspector in a fictional town in Northumberlandshire, England, Smith was badly wounded a couple books ago. The series focus turned to younger detectives in a reorganized team. The next books were all right, but they weren\u2019t Smith stories. Smith has retired now, but he\u2019s fully recovered and starting to chafe at the inactivity. Even his live-in partner, Jo, thinks he needs to find something to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Truth<\/a><\/em>, Anthony Hills, real estate broker son of Smith\u2019s old desk sergeant, Charlie Hills, has been arrested. He bought a share in a luxury yacht, which turned out to be used for drug smuggling. Charlie retains a law firm to defend him, and they mention he might want to talk to a local private detective agency. That agency usually does cyber-investigation, but they\u2019ve been thinking of taking on some shoe leather cases. And who better to handle such an investigation \u2013 just as a one-time shot \u2013 than DC Smith?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Private inquiry is a whole new world for our hero. He misses having police authority backing him up, but on the other hand he\u2019s less tied down by regulations and paperwork. The case will involve a trip to Amsterdam entailing genuine danger of death, but in the end Smith will make the case. With a couple big surprises at the wrap-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith\u2019s a great character, kind of a less scruffy Columbo. Small in stature and unprepossessing, he is in fact wicked smart and dangerous in a fight. He\u2019s been one of my favorite fictional heroes for some time now, and it was a pure delight to see him back in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DC Smith is back. This is very good news. The hero of Peter Grainger\u2019s low-key police novels, an inspector in a fictional town in Northumberlandshire, England, Smith was badly wounded a couple books ago. The series focus turned to younger detectives in a reorganized team. The next books were all right, but they weren\u2019t Smith … Continue reading ‘The Truth,’ by Peter Grainger<\/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":[689,2182,3701],"class_list":["post-15335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-dc-smith","tag-peter-grainger","tag-the-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\/15335","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=15335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15341,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15335\/revisions\/15341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}