{"id":1090,"date":"2010-01-25T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2010-01-25T14:05:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:05:16","slug":"withering-heights-by-dorothy-cannell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/25\/withering-heights-by-dorothy-cannell\/","title":{"rendered":"Withering Heights by Dorothy Cannell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love to read whodunnit type of mysteries in the classic tradition of Agatha Christie. Unfortunately,<em> Withering Heights<\/em> by Dorothy Cannell is not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>I read the first in this Ellie Haskell series, <em>Thin Woman<\/em>, a while ago. I didn&#8217;t love it, but I thought I&#8217;d try another book by this author.\u00c2\u00a0 The cover of the book was pink and pretty. This proves true not to judge a book by its cover. After reading <em>Withering Heights,<\/em> I decided I will not read any more by this author. <em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Withering Height<\/em>s is her 11th mystery featuring Ellie Haskell, so I am sure some may find the books intriguing. But for me, her style of writing is too verbose. There&#8217;s too much useless dialogue and asides that do not contribute to the story or to the characters. I was half way through the book before the intrigue began. The criminal was not clever, the resolution was not satisfying, and the heroine was not all that likable.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you&#8217;ve read any clean, clever mysteries that you recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to read whodunnit type of mysteries in the classic tradition of Agatha Christie. Unfortunately, Withering Heights by Dorothy Cannell is not one of them. I read the first in this Ellie Haskell series, Thin Woman, a while ago. I didn&#8217;t love it, but I thought I&#8217;d try another book by this author.\u00c2\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}