{"id":1777,"date":"2023-02-16T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:21:12","slug":"what-the-neighbors-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"What the Neighbors Saw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the scariest place in crime fiction these days? Yes, that would be the suburbs. Alexis and Sam, her husband, buy a run-down house in a super-posh neighborhood in the DC suburbs. They love what the home could become, but for now it just feels like a bottomless money pit. Alexis is pregnant with the couple\u2019s second child, and with little help from Sam\u2014he\u2019s trying for partnership at his law firm\u2014motherhood is no picnic. To say the two grate on each other is an understatement. It doesn\u2019t help that most people in the neighborhood assume that brown-skinned Alexis (she\u2019s part Honduran) is one of the help. But the women in the neighborhood, chardonnay in hand, <em>do<\/em> try to make her feel welcome, while pumping her for gossip. When their neighbor Teddy is found dead by the nearby Potomac River\u2014he was out for a run\u2014everything takes on a sinister patina. In the ensuing weeks, Alexis grows close to Blair, Teddy\u2019s widow, offering support while Blair fills her in on the lives of their neighbors. They\u2019re a creepy crew if there ever was one, forever loitering in each other\u2019s backyards, peeking into windows. Could Teddy\u2019s death be linked to one of them? <strong>In the armful of suburban domestic thrillers publishing this summer, this debut\u2014with its wild, super-spin of a plot, in which everything is turned upside down\u2014is one not to miss.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s the scariest place in crime fiction these days? Yes, that would be the suburbs. Alexis and Sam, her husband, buy a run-down house in a super-posh neighborhood in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[57,50,51],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-domestic","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/What-the-Neighbors..-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/What-the-Neighbors..-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}