{"id":4819,"date":"2009-05-15T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4819"},"modified":"2010-02-10T20:02:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T02:02:25","slug":"book-report-dash-p-i-by-carol-lea-benjamin-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/15\/book-report-dash-p-i-by-carol-lea-benjamin-1997\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Dash, P.I. by Carol Lea Benjamin (1997)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This volume collects two crime fiction novels by Benjamin, a dog trainer by trade.  As such, they feature a well-trained pit bull named Dashiell and both novels involve other dogs and one involves the world of dog trainers.<\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of women mystery writers turn out paperbacks in the mold of a woman detective with a twist of some sort, and I hadn&#8217;t really gotten into any before this volume.  Normally, I hit on the normal hardboiled stuff or the eggs benedict they serve instead these days.  But the books are light enough and breezy enough to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, you can tell a woman wrote these books, unlike other books written by men (Robert B. Parker) featuring women protagonists.  I think the epistemological differences are subtly apparent in not only the language but also the focus.<\/p>\n<p>So to make a long book short, I enjoyed it and would not only mind reading more by this author but in the genre.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1568655770&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This volume collects two crime fiction novels by Benjamin, a dog trainer by trade. As such, they feature a well-trained pit bull named Dashiell and both novels involve other dogs and one involves the world of dog trainers. I know a lot of women mystery writers turn out paperbacks in the mold of a woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5417,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4819\/revisions\/5417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}