{"id":22781,"date":"2026-09-25T19:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22781"},"modified":"2026-09-29T17:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T16:12:54","slug":"hell-of-a-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22781","title":{"rendered":"Hell of a Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22782\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/orangeIMGP0097.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/orangeIMGP0097.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/orangeIMGP0097-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>The sky lights up as the sun goes down.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>Eden Falls<\/em> by Vaseem Khan, who joins Abir Mukherjee and Ajay Chowdhury as South Asian UK-based crime writers turning their hand to (mostly US-based) thrillers. With mediocre results, it must be said. This one veers into technothriller\/science fictional territory with a mysterious alien object crash-landing in the desert, and the efforts of a pair of ill-matched women to hunt it down, while being chased by the FBI, an Elon Musk figure and an Indian intelligence agent.<br \/>\nA2 is reading <em>Land<\/em> by Maggie O&#8217;Farrell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky lights up as the sun goes down. A1 is reading Eden Falls by Vaseem Khan, who joins Abir Mukherjee and Ajay Chowdhury as South Asian UK-based crime writers turning their hand to (mostly US-based) thrillers. With mediocre results, it must be said. This one veers into technothriller\/science fictional territory with a mysterious alien &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hell of a Sky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[19,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22802,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22781\/revisions\/22802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}