{"id":1890,"date":"2022-11-03T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1890"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:28:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:28:50","slug":"a-good-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1890","title":{"rendered":"A Good Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Kuhlmann lives in an Edina, Minnesota, neighborhood called Country Club, and it\u2019s like what you would imagine. Katie didn\u2019t grow up rich, but she married old Minnesota money and now lives among neighbors who might \u201cchip in on a private jet\u201d so they can all vacation in the same luxurious place. Having endured a sad upbringing with her grandparents after her parents and brothers were killed in a car crash, Katie\u2019s happy to roll with the pampered oddness that is her new life as long as she\u2019s got her family close. But her safe haven is beginning to show signs of rot. When he\u2019s not ignoring his family or disappearing for lengthy stretches, Katie\u2019s husband, Jack, is angry and tense. Out of the blue, a wayward college friend of his arrives and takes up residence in the family\u2019s garden apartment, and Katie fears that things are going from bad to worse. She has no idea how dire things will get and the gut-punch of betrayal that\u2019s in store. When her husband confesses a crime to her\u2014is it even true?\u2014it\u2019s just the beginning. <strong>Goldman writes a woman\u2019s inner voice perfectly, and his background as a TV writer (Seinfeld, Ellen) shows on the page, with tense and thrilling scenes quickly alternating with romantic interludes and domestic entanglements.<\/strong> Jodi Piccoult readers will enjoy Katie\u2019s climb out of a painful trap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Kuhlmann lives in an Edina, Minnesota, neighborhood called Country Club, and it\u2019s like what you would imagine. Katie didn\u2019t grow up rich, but she married old Minnesota money and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1953,"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-1890","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\/A-Good-Family-1-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/A-Good-Family-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\/1890","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=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}