{"id":318,"date":"2010-11-19T12:36:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T16:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2015-04-08T19:45:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T19:45:16","slug":"the-man-from-beijing-by-henning-mankell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   alignleft wp-image-320\" title=\"The Man from Beijing\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/the-man-from-beijing4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Swedish judge Birgitta Roslin is shocked to find out that her mother&#8217;s adoptive parents were among those massacred one night in the tiny, snowy town of Hesjovallen.\u00a0 The police charge a lone lunatic with the crime, but Roslin has reason to believe that a mysterious Chinese man may be responsible.\u00a0 Her tips dismissed by the police, Roslin takes it upon herself to unravel the truth about the Hesjovallen murders, even as it brings her face to face with danger in the teeming city of Beijing.\u00a0 Fans of Stieg Larsson&#8217;s <em>Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em> trilogy will enjoy Henning&#8217;s sweeping tale of suspense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish judge Birgitta Roslin is shocked to find out that her mother&#8217;s adoptive parents were among those massacred one night in the tiny, snowy town of Hesjovallen.\u00a0 The police charge a lone lunatic with the crime, but Roslin has reason to believe that a mysterious Chinese man may be responsible.\u00a0 Her tips dismissed by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=318\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}