{"id":1919,"date":"2022-10-06T04:14:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T04:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2023-04-02T22:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:56:28","slug":"how-can-i-help-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1919","title":{"rendered":"How Can I Help You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clear your calendar, silence your phone, and settle down to enjoy Laura Sims\u2019 latest book in one joyous sitting. You deserve it and I guarantee you\u2019ll thank me.<\/strong> Set among library workers in a small public library\u2014no author has ever gotten library culture as right as Sims\u2014this book is as unsettling as a Shirley Jackson novel with the same crazy stalker energy of a Patricia Highsmith tale. It\u2019s time to move on for ex-nurse Margo, who leaves in her wake scores of suspicious deaths in a handful of hospitals. A library clerk position at the Carlyle Public Library gives her a chance at redemption, along with a new name, hair color, and wardrobe. And she can still help people, \u201cnot the way I helped them before, at the hospital, but still.\u201d She\u2019s able to keep the lid on her urges, for the most part, until two years later when Patricia, a new reference librarian, is hired. The two strike up a friendship of sorts\u2014they live in the same apartment building\u2014but when an elderly patron dies in the bathroom, and Margo becomes way over-excited, Patricia finds herself becoming obsessed with Margo and begins documenting her actions. The narrative alternates between the two women as the novel grows deeper, darker, and creepier, ending in a stunning, perfect climax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clear your calendar, silence your phone, and settle down to enjoy Laura Sims\u2019 latest book in one joyous sitting. You deserve it and I guarantee you\u2019ll thank me. Set among&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[59,52,164,50,51],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-literary","tag-psychological","tag-star","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/How-Can-I-Help-COVER-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/How-Can-I-Help-COVER-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\/1919","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=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}