{"id":22315,"date":"2024-12-24T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T16:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=22315"},"modified":"2024-12-24T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T16:30:33","slug":"book-60-of-52-swan-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/book-60-of-52-swan-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 60 (of 52) &#8211; Swan Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22316\" style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/swansong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22316\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/swansong.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/swansong.jpg 323w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/swansong-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swan Song &#8211; Elin Hilderbrand<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When a new couple arrives on Nantucket, they initially upend the social scene but quickly seem to be wearing out their welcome.\u00a0 When their live-in concierge, a young woman they met in the Virgin Islands, goes missing off their yacht the same night their mansion burns down, the retiring police chief has one final case to solve: what really happened on that boat?<\/p>\n<p>Elin Hilderbrand first crossed my path two years ago, when <em>The Hotel Nantucket<\/em> was a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award.\u00a0 Two years, three novels, and one short story later, she returns with her final Nantucket beach read, appropriately titled <em>Swan Song<\/em>.\u00a0 Many of the characters appeared in her previous works, including a couple I recognized from the few I&#8217;ve read, and the retirement of the police chief does seem to parallel her own decision to move away from this location and its characters.\u00a0 There&#8217;s still plenty of her back catalog for me to wade through, though, so the story isn&#8217;t quite done for me just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a new couple arrives on Nantucket, they initially upend the social scene but quickly seem to be wearing out their welcome.\u00a0 When their live-in concierge, a young woman they met in the Virgin Islands, goes missing off their yacht the same night their mansion burns down, the retiring police chief has one final case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[10260,9295,11693,10259],"class_list":["post-22315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-elin-hilderbrand","tag-goodreads-choice-awards","tag-swan-song","tag-the-hotel-nantucket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22317,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22315\/revisions\/22317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}