{"id":1819,"date":"2023-01-12T18:46:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T18:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:26:07","slug":"girls-and-their-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1819","title":{"rendered":"Girls and Their Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Parker family started off as regular Texans, but now financier Jeff just can\u2019t fail and they are Rolling. In. Money. His wife, Heather, seems unaware of how he makes such a fortune, but who cares? Home is now a California mansion where they have a few shelves of books in an otherwise empty library; the rest of the house is almost empty as well, but with Heather determined to spend their fortune as fast as possible, the minimalist look won\u2019t last.<br \/>\nDaughter Piper, 18, misses her old friends and hates her mom\u2019s relentless efforts to live through her children, primarily by making them into champion horse riders. Piper has rejected that life and Heather\u2019s focus is now on younger daughter Maple, who\u2019s terrified of the huge horses she\u2019s forced to ride and a terrible equestrian, but desperately trying to improve. Her tortured lessons quickly become a cash cow for Kieran Flynn, the cult-leader-like boss of the $10,000 per month (PER MONTH!) stables near the Parker\u2019s behemoth home.<br \/>\nWhat starts as dysfunction becomes much more serious when a body is found at the stables. Stories of Mable\u2019s horse-obsessed, mean-girl acquaintances and their horse-obsessed, mean-girl moms alternate with interviews by the steely Detective Perez, who wants none of these characters\u2019 nonsense. Get ready to enter another world and a perplexing puzzle: we don\u2019t even know who\u2019s dead till near the end of the book, let alone who the killer is. <strong>A great summer read<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parker family started off as regular Texans, but now financier Jeff just can\u2019t fail and they are Rolling. In. Money. His wife, Heather, seems unaware of how he makes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[52,50,51,53],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-psychological","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Girls-and-their-Horses-1-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Girls-and-their-Horses-1-400x600.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\/1819","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=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}