{"id":2539,"date":"2018-03-21T20:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T20:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/the-private-school-murders-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-05T13:59:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:59:02","slug":"the-private-school-murders-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/the-private-school-murders-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Private School Murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      FlumeAward &#8211; The Private School Murders                <em>Confessions: The Private School Murders<\/em> by James Patterson<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/17333276-1.jpg\" alt=\"17333276\" title=\"17333276\" style=\"height: 241px; width: 160px;\" \/>17333276<\/p>\n<p>Haven&#8217;t read this one, but a quick search seems to indicate that this is the second in the series of &quot;stand alone&quot; criminal cases. Would love for someone who&#8217;s read the book to comment. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>Lisa Houde \/ Rye Public Library<\/p>\n<p>A decent mystery that stood on its own, even if it is the second in the series. Tandy has a sharp mind, which she uses to one-up the police force in solving crimes. I&#8217;m not a fan of that kind of attitude, but the fact that she gets results does go some way to ameliorate it. I found the confessions excerpts to be odd, though we got more information that way. I also found it slightly distasteful to be directly addressed as &quot;friend&quot; randomly in the midst of an otherwise cohesive narrative. That said, the characters are sympathetic, even if they do have rich kid problems, and likeable. The many mystery threads seemed a bit much (did Tandy&#8217;s brother kill his fiancee; where are the poisonous creatures coming from; who is killing private school girls), but did serve to make the story interesting. Would make a fine addition to the list, if a mystery is needed. Good for older teens. The journal-like format of the confessions might turn boys off, but the myster\/story is interesting enough that it might not matter. -Kirsten Rundquist Corbett, Sandown Public Library, 2\/2\/14      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FlumeAward &#8211; The Private School Murders Confessions: The Private School Murders by James Patterson17333276 Haven&#8217;t read this one, but a quick search seems to indicate that this is the second &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"moree\"><a class=\"btn btn-inverse btn-normal btn-primary \" href=\"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/2018\/03\/the-private-school-murders-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flume-award-titles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2996,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nhlibraries.org\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}