{"id":2215,"date":"2022-04-07T23:32:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T23:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2215"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:45:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:45:25","slug":"abiding-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2215","title":{"rendered":"Abiding Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester, NH judge Carlos Garcia is in an unexpected and uncomfortable spot: the defendant\u2019s seat, accused of murdering his wife by adding an overdose of Vicodin to her dinner. In every way, he\u2019s one of lawyer Dutch Francis\u2019s least-favorite clients. The judge is not open to any advice, thinks he still has the upper hand in the courtroom, and is clearly withholding information about his wife\u2019s death. Francis is already thinking he shouldn\u2019t have taken this case when he gets two sharp shocks: his famous newscaster wife, Ginnie\u2014they\u2019ve been married a good five minutes\u2014tells him she\u2019s pregnant and not sure she wants to keep the baby, and, later that day, she goes missing. Francis believes she\u2019s been kidnapped, a suspicion that\u2019s borne out as he begins to receive oddities, such as her fingernail clippings, in the mail. The suspense is in high gear throughout this thriller as we follow the twists and turns of the courtroom drama and the chase when Francis hounds the cops to find his wife, but also joins his legal investigator on their own sometimes-scary bid to rescue Ginnie.<strong> A startling ending is in store, and getting there is an enjoyable trip through memorable characters, love-fueled desperation, and the exasperations of the justice system.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester, NH judge Carlos Garcia is in an unexpected and uncomfortable spot: the defendant\u2019s seat, accused of murdering his wife by adding an overdose of Vicodin to her dinner. In&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,97,55,51],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-legal","tag-mystery-detective","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Abiding-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Abiding-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\/2215","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=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}