{"id":1888,"date":"2022-11-03T01:01:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T01:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:28:56","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:28:56","slug":"a-cryptic-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1888","title":{"rendered":"A Cryptic Clue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former university librarian, forced into early retirement, takes on a new job cataloging a book collection, only to find herself spending more time solving a crime than applying the Library of Congress subject headings. Jane Hunter is making lots of changes in her life. She\u2019s downsized her home, is living alone\u2014her actress daughter is off on a national tour\u2014and is about to bring in some much-needed funds by cataloging 33-year-old Cameron \u201cCam\u201d Clewe\u2019s vast crime fiction collection. But on the first day at the job, at Cam\u2019s sprawling mansion, she discovers\u2014wouldn\u2019t you know it?\u2014a corpse on the floor of the library. And not just any corpse. Cam\u2019s latest ex-girlfriend. To make matters worse, several people saw the couple arguing the night before. With handsome Cam the number one suspect, if Jane wants to keep her job, she\u2019s got to keep her boss out of jail, so the two team up to find the real perp. The fun here is in what an odd couple they make. Sherlock Cam has \u201canxiety, OCD, occasional depression, and a general lack of social awareness.\u201d And while Watson Jane may not have been diagnosed with anything listed in the DSM-5, she\u2019s darn nosey, quite pushy, a bit of a rumor monger, and has some dubious professional ethics (she brings items home, and shows them to a neighbor, without Cam\u2019s permission.) <strong>Everything is in place here for a successful series sure to delight traditional cozy readers for years to come. Now let these two go at each other.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former university librarian, forced into early retirement, takes on a new job cataloging a book collection, only to find herself spending more time solving a crime than applying the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,55,67,56],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-mystery-detective","tag-traditional","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/A-Cryptic-Clue-1-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/A-Cryptic-Clue-1.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\/1888","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=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}