{"id":8037,"date":"2016-07-14T10:46:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T14:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8037"},"modified":"2016-07-14T10:46:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T14:46:42","slug":"nothing-to-hide-by-j-mark-bertrand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8037","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to Hide by J. Mark Bertrand"},"content":{"rendered":"

She rolls her eyes. \u201cThe Song of Roland. Don\u2019t get me started. That was the first one we had to read. If that\u2019s chivalry, then you can have it. That book infuriates me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReally.\u201d I flip through the pages, many of which are underscored. I\u2019m familiar with the story, of course, though I can\u2019t recall having actually read the poem. In fact, before now I\u2019m not sure I realized it was a poem, with all the stanzas and verses. \u201cHe\u2019s supposed to blow the horn to signal the ambush, is that it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s supposed to blow it if they need help. Only Roland\u2019s too proud for that, so he waits and waits until everybody\u2019s basically dead. Does that sound like heroism to you?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nBertrand\u2019s third thrilling novel in his Roland March series begins with a body dumped in a recreational park. The head is missing and the hands, one of which is pointing, have been \u2018degloved,\u2019 which is a clinical word for skinned. March\u2019s partner on the case, Jerry Lorenz, suggests the hand is pointing at something, maybe the missing head, and March nearly breaks his back looking for it. No dice.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care to outline the plot any further, because I enjoyed jumping into this novel having forgotten almost everything I\u2019d heard about it. It\u2019s a fun story, as are all of Bertrand\u2019s March novels. Personal moments are filled with dialogue like the above interchange on The Song of Roland<\/em>, showing Bertrand\u2019s appealing bookish style. This brief description of the poem absolutely foreshadows the plot, which is exactly the way they do it in the movies, which reminds me how someone should be throwing money at Bertrand for the honor of taking his March trilogy to the big screen.<\/p>\n

March isn\u2019t any kind of super cop or brilliantly quirky detective. He\u2019s a seasoned professional, like many homicide detectives on the force today. He has overcome the difficulties of his past, put numerous criminals behind bars, and continues to seek (and question) trust from his colleagues. He solves his cases by hard, honest work: asking questions, following leads, and pressuring forensics to cough up the right evidence. Like the title suggests,\u00a0Nothing to Hide<\/em><\/a> drives its story to a bold climax where all cards are on the table and everyone\u2019s exposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She rolls her eyes. \u201cThe Song of Roland. Don\u2019t get me started. That was the first one we had to read. If that\u2019s chivalry, then you can have it. That book infuriates me.\u201d \u201cReally.\u201d I flip through the pages, many of which are underscored. I\u2019m familiar with the story, of course, though I can\u2019t recall … Continue reading Nothing to Hide by J. Mark Bertrand<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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],"tags":[591,1336,2054,2055,2416],"class_list":["post-8037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-crime","tag-j-mark-bertrand","tag-nothing-to-hide","tag-novel","tag-roland-march"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}