{"id":1774,"date":"2023-02-23T17:01:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T17:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:21:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:21:49","slug":"what-never-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"What Never Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overtown, as California\u2019s Catalina Island residents call the mainland, Disneyland has been closed. On Catalina, the ferries have stopped and even the St. Patrick\u2019s Day karaoke is off. COVID is on the way, if it isn\u2019t there already. But Collette \u201cCoco\u201d Weber has bigger worries. She\u2019s back on the island where her parents and brother were murdered years ago, a crime against the only Black family on Catalina. Coco herself escaped as she had sneaked out against her parents wishes. She\u2019s hardly in line with others\u2019 wishes now, either. Aunt Gwen\u2014famous for stealing trinkets from rich tourists\u2014has been living in the house Coco inherited when her parents died, and isn\u2019t thrilled to share it. And Coco\u2019s determination to continue owning the house clashes with someone\u2019s plan: there\u2019s a housing shortage on Catalina, and she\u2019s violently pressured to sell. At the same time, island widows are being found dead, alone in remote spots that they wouldn\u2019t likely have visited without coercion. As Catalina gets ever more dangerous, a peril nicely juxtaposed against Coco\u2019s job as an island newspaper obituary writer, readers will fall deeper into the compelling mysteries of who killed the protagonist\u2019s family years before and who\u2019s behind today\u2019s mayhem. Hall\u2019s writing of a PTSD-stricken protagonist rings true, with her \u201cwarts and all\u201d presentation offering veracity, resilience, and exasperation in equal measure. <strong>Those new to the author will want to go back to her previous, also fast-moving puzzles such as last year\u2019s <\/strong><em><strong>We Lie Here<\/strong><\/em><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overtown, as California\u2019s Catalina Island residents call the mainland, Disneyland has been closed. On Catalina, the ferries have stopped and even the St. Patrick\u2019s Day karaoke is off. COVID is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[57,52,50,51],"class_list":["post-1774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-domestic","tag-psychological","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Never-Happened-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Never-Happened.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}