{"id":42665,"date":"2013-08-20T00:09:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T07:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=42665"},"modified":"2013-08-20T00:09:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T07:09:29","slug":"three-bags-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/42665","title":{"rendered":"Three Bags Full"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tWhat could possibly be mysterious<\/i> about …<\/p>\n

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Photo by Roger Green via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

sheep?<\/p>\n

This is a question best asked of German writer Leonnie Swan<\/a>, who seems to sense something a bit more …<\/p>\n

sharp? savvy? shrewd?<\/p>\n

about these curly critters than the average pasture passerby might surmise.<\/p>\n

Swan is the author of\u00a0Three Bags Full<\/i><\/a>, an unlikely suspense novel surrounding\u2014in fact, starring\u2014sheep.<\/p>\n

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Cover of the latest edition of Three Bags Full<\/em> by Leonie Swann; Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

Warm up your funny bones, girls, ’cause this sleuth spoof is worth a read.<\/p>\n

Picture an idyllic hillside meadow in Ireland \u2026<\/p>\n

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Photo by Eric Jones via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

But don’t be fooled.<\/p>\n

(No, we’ll have no wool pulled over our eyes.)<\/p>\n

This is the scene of a crime.<\/p>\n

A beloved shepherd has fallen victim to a garden spade,<\/p>\n

duh, duh, DUH!<\/i><\/p>\n

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Photo by Steve F CC-BY-SA-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

and his faithful flock is determined to catch the culprit.<\/p>\n

Led by Miss Maple, the smartest sheep on the farm (think Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple),<\/p>\n

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Photo by John Haslam via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

a gang of grazing gumshoes gather for clandestine conferences and embark on reconnaissance missions into the village, where they encounter a slew of likely suspects.<\/p>\n

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Photo by T\u00farelio via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

Whodunit?<\/p>\n

Was it Ham, the beastly butcher?<\/p>\n

Rebecca, a village newcomer with a secret and a scheme?<\/p>\n

Gabriel, the shady shepherd of a very odd flock?<\/p>\n

Rest assured, the sheep will not rest until they have sniffed out the truth, even as they wrestle with their own decidedly human tendencies toward guilt, misdeeds, and unrequited love.<\/p>\n

And you thought sheep were mere muttonheads!<\/p>\n

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Photo by Mutante via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

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What could possibly be mysterious about … sheep? This is a question best asked of German writer Leonnie Swan, who seems to sense something a bit more … sharp? savvy? shrewd? about these curly critters than the average pasture passerby … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glitterati"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}