{"id":2066,"date":"2022-04-21T16:23:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:45:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:45:33","slug":"the-collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2066","title":{"rendered":"The Collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hancock\u2019s series debut, <em>The Corpse Flower<\/em>, which featured in this newsletter\u2019s debut, introduced Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan and police officer Erik Sch\u00e4fer. The somewhat jaded friends don\u2019t work together per se\u2014it\u2019s more that they investigate the same crime in parallel while throwing each other tidbits that help move the case along. Their unusual arrangement swings into gear again when a child goes missing. Lukas Bjerre goes to the same Copenhagen school as Heloise\u2019s friend\u2019s daughter, so the journalist has an in, but that doesn\u2019t make the search any easier. Lukas seems to have simply vanished, with the whole school day having passed before anyone noticed. At the same time, Heloise is going through personal turmoil as she\u2019s unwillingly pregnant, the father \u201ca crummy wolf in permanent press trousers,\u201d according to Sch\u00e4fer. Adding to Kaldan\u2019s anguish is her inability to remember where she saw a barn that the missing boy might be held in\u2014one that features in Lukas\u2019s collection of photos illustrating his pareidolia, or tendency to see faces in inanimate objects. As the search continues, a suspect\u2019s PTSD forms part of the tale, adding to the feeling that this whole case hinges on mental instability, with the danger to Lukas the one constant in a storm of fear.<strong> Kaldan and Sch\u00e4fer form a realistic and entertaining if gruff duo, one whose work readers will gladly jump into again.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hancock\u2019s series debut, The Corpse Flower, which featured in this newsletter\u2019s debut, introduced Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan and police officer Erik Sch\u00e4fer. The somewhat jaded friends don\u2019t work together per&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,55,65,52],"class_list":["post-2066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-international","tag-mystery-detective","tag-police-procedural","tag-psychological"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Collector-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Collector-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\/2066","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=2066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}