{"id":215,"date":"2004-02-24T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=215"},"modified":"2007-03-03T08:22:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T13:22:54","slug":"dim-sum-dead-a-madeline-bean-culinary-mystery-by-jerrilyn-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/24\/dim-sum-dead-a-madeline-bean-culinary-mystery-by-jerrilyn-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dim Sum Dead : A Madeline Bean Culinary Mystery, by Jerrilyn Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0380817187\/ericnehrlisho-20>Amazon link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I picked this up kind of randomly at the used bookstore a couple weeks ago.  Why am I going to the used bookstore when I have more unread books on my floor than I have time to read?  I can&#8217;t explain it either.  Heck, these days, I can&#8217;t even keep up with my Economist subscription, let alone read books.  But I was unable to resist the siren call of the bookstore as I walked by, so while I was there, I glanced at the pile of recently arrived used mysteries, and the name Dim Sum Dead just amused me.  I picked it up and read the first few pages and they were tolerably engaging, so I bought the book.  It&#8217;s a light frothy mystery set in Los Angeles, with a protagonist, Madeline Bean, who&#8217;s a caterer to private parties.  In this case, she gets drawn into a mystery when an acquaintance asks for help and later dies under mysterious circumstances.  Quick, fun read.  I&#8217;ll probably pick up the others in the series if I see them used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon link I picked this up kind of randomly at the used bookstore a couple weeks ago. Why am I going to the used bookstore when I have more unread books on my floor than I have time to read? I can&#8217;t explain it either. Heck, these days, I can&#8217;t even keep up with my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}