{"id":16733,"date":"2022-05-10T19:22:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T23:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16733"},"modified":"2022-05-10T19:22:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T23:22:56","slug":"post-pattern-by-david-chill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16733","title":{"rendered":"‘Post Pattern,’ by David Chill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am not reluctant, <\/strong>in my old age, to drop a book unceremoniously when I find the writing poor. Sometimes, if my sensitivities are outraged enough, I\u2019ll tell you about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case is somewhat different with Post Pattern<\/a><\/em>, by David Chill. I found the writing very bad in places \u2013 especially in the area of word choice. However, I liked the character and the story enough to stick with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burnside (yet another one-name private eye, in the Spenser tradition) is a Los Angeles private investigator. He was a star football player in college, and then became a cop. He was a good, by-the-book policeman until one day he gave a break to someone who didn\u2019t deserve it. As a consequence he became a laughingstock on the force, and he quit to go private.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A wealthy young man, Norman Freeman, comes to Burnside\u2019s office to hire him. Someone took a shot at him in his car the night before. Only he\u2019s not sure the shot was meant for him. It could be \u2013 he\u2019s a former pro football player who is heir apparent to a big auto dealership. He could have business enemies. But he also has a ne\u2019er-do-well brother who hangs out with some sketchy people, and he was driving his brother’s car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon there will be a real murder, and Burnside will wade into a whirlpool of personal motives, business motives, and dangerous dames. The world of ex-jocks is a major element here, which doesn\u2019t do much for me personally, but it didn\u2019t put me off. I liked that Burnside believes strongly in being armed at all times, and there wasn\u2019t a lot of political correctness in view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What author David Chill does well is create good characters. And good characters make up for a lot with me. I wish he\u2019d had a better copy editor, but I still enjoyed Post Pattern<\/em>, and went on to buy the next book in the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am not reluctant, in my old age, to drop a book unceremoniously when I find the writing poor. Sometimes, if my sensitivities are outraged enough, I\u2019ll tell you about it. The case is somewhat different with Post Pattern, by David Chill. I found the writing very bad in places \u2013 especially in the area … Continue reading ‘Post Pattern,’ by David Chill<\/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":[4175,4174,4176],"class_list":["post-16733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-burnside","tag-david-chill","tag-post-pattern"],"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\/16733","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=16733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16735,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16733\/revisions\/16735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}