{"id":33724,"date":"2023-09-06T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33724"},"modified":"2023-10-17T07:41:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T11:41:04","slug":"a-troll-walks-into-a-bar-a-noir-urban-fantasy-novel-alexander-southerland-p-i-by-douglas-lumsden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33724","title":{"rendered":"A TROLL WALKS INTO A BAR: A Noir Urban Fantasy Novel (Alexander Southerland, P.I.) by Douglas Lumsden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PrtxCG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z090623trollwalksbar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I usually like my crime fiction to be hardboiled and realistic.\u00a0 Well, as realistic as hardboiled fiction usually is.\u00a0 Still, sometimes it&#8217;s fun to venture off into some crazier territory. <strong>A TROLL WALKS INTO A BAR: A Noir Urban Fantasy Novel (Alexander Southerland, P.I.) <\/strong>by Douglas Lumsden looks to fit the bill.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When a troll speaks&#8211;listen up! Hardboiled P.I. Alexander Southerland just wants to enjoy a quiet drink when a 500-pound troll walks into the bar. Next thing he knows, Southerland is navigating his way through rogue cops, a gang war, beautiful nymphs from the ocean depths, a were-rat, the mayor&#8217;s corrupt fixer, the sleaziest (and cleverest) gnome in Yerba City, and creatures right out of legend. At the center of it all is a mysterious locked box. Can Southerland discover its explosive secret&#8211;and survive long enough to pay his rent on time?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I read the Amazon sample and liked what I saw.\u00a0 Check it out.\u00a0 You may as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually like my crime fiction to be hardboiled and realistic.\u00a0 Well, as realistic as hardboiled fiction usually is.\u00a0 Still,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51,53,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime","category-horror","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34165,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33724\/revisions\/34165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}