{"id":2048,"date":"2022-06-02T02:37:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T02:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2024-07-10T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T16:25:03","slug":"red-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2048","title":{"rendered":"Red Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyped as sweeping bestseller lists in Europe, and for good reason, this has all the velocity and thrills of Stieg Larson\u2019s Millennium series but none of the eyeroll-inducing misogyny. \u201cAntonia Scott allows herself to think of suicide no more than three minutes per day,\u201d opens the book. She believes her life to be destroyed as her husband has been in a coma for years. Jon Guti\u00e9rrez is the latest disgraced Madrid cop forced by a mysterious character, who calls himself Mentor, to try to get Antonia back on the force. Jon\u2019s between police partners, having left \u201cthe Cristiano Ronaldo of Scrabble,\u201d his previous partner, at his last job. He doesn\u2019t have a boyfriend at the moment either. That\u2019s lucky, because it takes all his wiles to deal with Antonia, a woman who\u2019s been trained to have superhuman recall and powers of deduction. She returns to work, and her odd-couple partnership with Jon is pitted against the sinister kidnapper of one of the richest women in Spain, who has left what may be religious symbolism at crime scenes and who drags the partners into some incredibly tense situations (and has an out-of-the-blue twist in store). Word lovers will relish Antonia\u2019s asides that spring from her hobby of collecting expressive words, such as the Inuit Ajunsuaqq, which means to bite a fish and get a mouthful of ash, and the Wagiman murr-ma, searching for an object in the water with your feet. <strong>It\u2019s all engrossing, and best of all, this is the first in a trilogy.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyped as sweeping bestseller lists in Europe, and for good reason, this has all the velocity and thrills of Stieg Larson\u2019s Millennium series but none of the eyeroll-inducing misogyny. \u201cAntonia&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[116,64,55,137,164,51,122],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-21st-century","tag-international","tag-mystery-detective","tag-spain","tag-star","tag-thrillers","tag-world-literature"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Red-Queen-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Red-Queen-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\/2048","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=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}