{"id":13982,"date":"2024-07-16T06:16:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T10:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=13982"},"modified":"2024-07-16T06:17:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T10:17:24","slug":"the-heat-islands-by-randy-wayne-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/16\/the-heat-islands-by-randy-wayne-white\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Heat Islands” by Randy Wayne White"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Copyright 1992 by Randy Wayne White. Published by St Martin’s Press, New York.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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This is a “Doc Ford” novel, set on Sanibel and Captiva Islands. Being a resident of nearby Ft Myers, the locales are very familiar. This boosts the enjoyment for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the problem is that this isn’t really a mystery. It does start out as one – a body is discovered floating in the ocean. The death is ruled a homicide. But the whodunit is rapidly resolved – to Doc Ford, anyway – and the rest of the novel is devoted to Doc Ford tracking down proof to convince others. There isn’t a lot of drama here and no real surprises. That makes it a well-written novel with local color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it doesn’t make it a great novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that is all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 out of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copyright 1992 by Randy Wayne White. Published by St Martin’s Press, New York. This is a “Doc Ford” novel, set on Sanibel and Captiva Islands. Being a resident of nearby Ft Myers, the locales are very familiar. This boosts the enjoyment for me. Part of the problem is that this isn’t really a mystery. It … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3Dw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13985,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions\/13985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}