{"id":2135,"date":"2022-07-14T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:42:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:42:40","slug":"the-last-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2135","title":{"rendered":"The Last Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rhys Lloyd, a former opera singer, has recently built a series of luxury homes overlooking Mirror Lake, on the boundary between Wales and England. Neither the process nor the end results endear him to the locals, to say the least. To attempt to mend fences, and bring the townies and the posh lake crowd together, he throws a massive New Year\u2019s Eve party, only to disappear in the middle of it. When Rhys\u2019s body is found floating in the lake on New Year\u2019s morning, no one seems all that surprised. Nor sad. Not the town folk, not his wife, and certainly not DC Ffion Morgan, who is assigned to the case. Ffion is a local, back home after a failed marriage, and her search for the killer brings her close to people she\u2019s known her whole life, and close to secrets of her own. Against her wishes, she\u2019s paired with DC Leo Brady from the English side of the lake, and they provide every sort of tension imaginable, from national to sexual, giving the book a good bit of levity. Like the TV series \u201cBroadchurch\u201d and the novels of Ann Cleeves, this wonderful novel takes the reader\u2014through twists and turns, and red herrings aplenty\u2014deep within a community.<\/strong> Crime fiction is a whole lot better now that DC Ffion Morgan has arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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