{"id":54,"date":"2014-06-01T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T15:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2019-04-01T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T18:02:17","slug":"original-sin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/?page_id=54","title":{"rendered":"Original Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/faravahar.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55\" src=\"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/faravahar.gif\" alt=\"faravahar\" width=\"278\" height=\"269\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Original Sin&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nby Karl P T Walsh<br \/>\nDavid and Jane Sharpe live in the picturesque village of<br \/>\nGreenfield in the shadow of the Lancashire moors. They<br \/>\nare the envy of their friends and lead an idyllic life<br \/>\ncommuting to Manchester to work and returning at night to<br \/>\ntheir dormitory village, a village that thirty years ago<br \/>\nwas the center of a nationwide man hunt.<br \/>\nTom Fissler is an archaeologist and from the sun baked<br \/>\ndeserts of Iran he returns to the university to curate the<br \/>\ncity museum, where he and his eccentric Ph.D. student<br \/>\nJanine unearth a shocking mistake. He yearns for the<br \/>\ndesert but wonders during this long dry summer in<br \/>\nManchester if it will ever rain again.<br \/>\nMargaret Burgess is retiring and her husband has left<br \/>\nher. She thinks things couldn&#8217;t get any worse but then<br \/>\nJohn Michaelson convicted child murderer comes to the end<br \/>\nof his sentence. D.I. Burgess is tired, she has had a long<br \/>\ncareer spanning those awkward pre-politically correct<br \/>\nsixties and now an old case refuses to stay closed.<br \/>\nThose white net curtains billow in the evening air and<br \/>\nthe happy twitter from the children&#8217;s playground blows<br \/>\ngently across the church yard as a summer fog gathers in<br \/>\nthe hollows of the land&#8230;<br \/>\nWhy can&#8217;t David sleep and what is the significance of<br \/>\nhis recurrent dreams, dreams so real that they threaten<br \/>\nhis sanity. Can Jane help? And if she can why won&#8217;t she?<br \/>\nWhat can the children tell us? What can innocents tell<br \/>\nus about sin?.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Original Sin&#8221; by Karl P T Walsh David and Jane Sharpe live in the picturesque [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/675"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karlwalsh.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}