{"id":1776,"date":"2023-02-16T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2023-04-02T22:53:46","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:53:46","slug":"a-shimmer-of-red-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"A Shimmer of Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I eagerly await the books in the Odessa Jones series, and the latest offering is better than ever. <\/strong>Odessa (Dessa) is a realtor\/caterer in suburban New Jersey. Life is going well\u2014housing sales are way up\u2014until one of her realtor colleagues, Anna Lee, is killed in a hit and run while out jogging. Could it have been murder? Dessa can\u2019t help but become involved. She goes deep into her colleague\u2019s life, uncovering a surprising past and a present in which Anna was being stalked. But why would anyone threaten this young woman? In a brilliant move on the author\u2019s part, Dessa ends up discovering her connection to Anna, one that extends back decades to Dessa\u2019s first fianc\u00e9, when she was barely in her twenties. Part of the delight of this series, which is set in a diverse community, is the recurring characters, from Dessa\u2019s family-like colleagues to restaurateur Lennox Royal\u2014a possible love interest?\u2014to Aunt Phoenix. Dessa\u2019s second sight\u2014she sometimes has the ability to see aura-like glimmers over people, among other paranormal skills\u2014is a gift she has along with her aunts. It\u2019s introduced deftly in the book, and even skeptics will find the protagonist\u2019s gift wholly credible\u2013at least while they\u2019re wrapped up in the plot. <strong>This is billed as a cozy\u2014there is a cat and plenty of tea\u2014but Wesley pushes a bit beyond the genre\u2019s traditions. Dive in with this volume, but if you have the time, start with volume one, <\/strong><em><strong>A Glimmer of Death<\/strong><\/em><strong>. You won\u2019t be disappointed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I eagerly await the books in the Odessa Jones series, and the latest offering is better than ever. Odessa (Dessa) is a realtor\/caterer in suburban New Jersey. Life is going&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[104,61,163,55,56],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-african-american-black","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-book-of-the-week","tag-mystery-detective","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Shimmer-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Shimmer.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\/1776","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=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}