The Sacred Art of Stealing Christopher Brookmyre The second book featuring Officer de Xavia and the first with her as the lead character. In bad political odour after saving the day at Dubh Ardrain in A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away and hitting her thirtieth birthday she finds herself involved with an unusual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,27,50,76,4,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-2","category-books","category-crime-fiction","category-fiction","category-library","category-rated","category-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"sacred](\"http:\/\/treefell.com\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sacred-art-92x150.jpg\")
<\/span>The second book featuring Officer de Xavia and the first with her as the lead character.
\nIn bad political odour after saving the day at Dubh Ardrain in A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away<\/a> and hitting her thirtieth birthday she finds herself involved with an unusual bank robbery and with an even more unusual bank robber.
\nI reviewed this book on the blog before in 2003<\/a> and in 2005<\/a> but to be honest I think I enjoyed it more this time round.
\nI recommend Brookmyre’s work without reservation.<\/p>\n