{"id":14081,"date":"2020-08-17T05:25:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/book\/if-it-bleeds\/"},"modified":"2020-08-17T05:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T09:25:17","slug":"if-it-bleeds","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/book\/if-it-bleeds\/","title":{"rendered":"If It Bleeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>If it Bleeds is a collection of four new novellas \u2014<i>Mr. Harrigan\u2019s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat<\/i>, and the title story <i>If It Bleeds<\/i>\u2014 each pulling readers into intriguing and frightening places.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A collection of four uniquely wonderful long stories, including a stand-alone sequel to <i>The Outsider<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>News people have a saying: &#8216;If it bleeds, it leads&#8217;. And a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School is guaranteed to lead any bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency is working on the case of a missing dog &#8211; and on her own need to be more assertive &#8211; when she sees the footage on TV. But when she tunes in again, to the late-night report, she realizes there is something not quite right about the correspondent who was first on the scene. So begins <i> <b>&#8216;If It Bleeds&#8217;<\/b> <\/i>, a stand-alone sequel to <i>The Outsider<\/i> featuring the incomparable Holly on her first solo case.<\/p>\n<p>Dancing alongside are three more long stories &#8211; <i> <b>&#8216;Mr Harrigan&#8217;s Phone&#8217;, &#8216;The Life of Chuck&#8217;<\/b> <\/i> and <i> <b>&#8216;Rat&#8217;<\/b> <\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, <i>If It Bleeds<\/i> is a uniquely satisfying collection of longer short fiction by an incomparably gifted writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it Bleeds is a collection of four new novellas \u2014Mr. Harrigan\u2019s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds\u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book_status":[],"book_genre":[],"class_list":["post-14081","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/14081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_status?post=14081"},{"taxonomy":"book_genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myriad.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_genre?post=14081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}