{"id":9704,"date":"2017-07-06T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9704"},"modified":"2017-07-06T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T00:16:00","slug":"blacklight-blue-by-peter-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9704","title":{"rendered":"‘Blacklight Blue,’ by Peter May"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blacklight<\/p>\n

I kind of cooled<\/strong> to Peter May\u2019s Enzo Macleod mystery series after the last volume I reviewed. But I picked the thread up again with Blacklight Blue<\/a><\/em>. I\u2019m pleased to report that some of the quirks that annoyed me in previous books have been moderated, and I enjoyed the book well enough.<\/p>\n

This time out, Enzo has just gotten a diagnosis of terminal cancer from a doctor, when (in short succession) one of his daughters is nearly killed by a bomb, his other daughter\u2019s boyfriend\u2019s business is burned down, and all his credit cards are stopped.<\/p>\n

It all seems to relate to the latest in his cold case investigations. A former forensic scientist, Enzo has made it his crusade, based on a bet, to clear up a number of unsolved French murders (though Scottish-Italian, Enzo lives in Paris). His investigation of the murder of a \u201crent boy\u201d takes him (along with his usual entourage \u2013 his daughters, their boyfriends, and his female assistant) to the Auvergne region of France, where he faces a relentless enemy and a deadly confrontation on a mountainside.<\/p>\n

I was pleased that the earlier, half-comic theme of Enzo\u2019s devastating attractiveness to every women he meets has been downplayed. This time out he limits himself to a sympathetic female ski instructor who provides his party with a convenient hideout.<\/p>\n

My enjoyment of these books is reduced by the fact that I don\u2019t actually find Enzo a very appealing character. Yet I keep reading the books, so it can\u2019t be that bad. Peter May is a good writer.<\/p>\n

Recommended. Cautions for the usual stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I kind of cooled to Peter May\u2019s Enzo Macleod mystery series after the last volume I reviewed. But I picked the thread up again with Blacklight Blue. I\u2019m pleased to report that some of the quirks that annoyed me in previous books have been moderated, and I enjoyed the book well enough. This time out, … Continue reading ‘Blacklight Blue,’ by Peter May<\/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":[340,887,2190],"class_list":["post-9704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-blacklight-blue","tag-enzo-macleod","tag-peter-may"],"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\/9704","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=9704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}