{"id":3662,"date":"2022-01-26T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2022-01-26T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:24:42","slug":"book-review-death-in-the-off-season-by-francine-mathews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3662","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  Death in the Off-Season by Francine Mathews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/768927.Death_in_the_Off_Season\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/768927.Death_in_the_Off_Season\">Death in the Off-Season<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/81794.Francine_Mathews\">Francine Mathews<\/a><br><br>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/4506744843\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><br><br><br>First in a mystery series. (Because, of course, why finish any of the many other series I&#8217;ve started? I am beginning to think I have commitment issues.)<br>This was a fun and good read, with interesting characters and a well-constructed plot. It helps if you&#8217;ve been to Nantucket, not because the mystery is lessened at all, but because it&#8217;s fun to identify the various types of people and the landmarks that are mentioned throughout the book. The tension between the locals and the off-islanders is real and accurately portrayed with nuance and complexity.<br>The author also writes as Stephanie Barron with a Jane Austen mystery series, which I will have to re-start. But this contemporary mystery is intelligently written and the literary skill of the author adds to the enjoyment of the book itself.<br>Note: the first few books of the series came out many years ago, but the author has revised and updated them as part of re-launching the series and adding to it.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death in the Off-Season by Francine Mathews My rating: 4 of 5 stars First in a mystery series. (Because, of course, why finish any of the many other series I&#8217;ve started? I am beginning to think I have commitment issues.)This was a fun and good read, with interesting characters and a well-constructed plot. It helps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,637,638,108,422],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-francine-mathews","tag-merry-folger","tag-mysteries","tag-nantucket"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-X4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}