{"id":2280,"date":"2022-01-27T18:09:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:49:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:49:16","slug":"bad-day-breaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2280","title":{"rendered":"Bad Day Breaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>n some places it\u2019s easy to make good choices, and then there\u2019s Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, where Sherriff Heidi Kick has clawed her way out of addiction and onto the right side of the law. Her deputy is likely the one using the office computers to exchange risqu\u00e9 communications with prisoners (the men\u2019s comments, such as \u201cif you have children of your own that is not at all a problem with me,\u201d could be a novel of their own). The same deputy\u2019s husband is causing Heidi headaches through his leadership of Kill the Cult, a group that gathers to protest a nomadic religious group that\u2019s moved into a local abandoned storage facility. Cults, whether fiction or nonfiction, are always a big draw, but the undercurrent of strength shown by the sheriff, which is complemented by others who find their way to the right decisions when things heat up, is the quiet draw here. <strong>Galligan has created a flawed character to follow in Heidi Kick, who\u2019s at once jaded by her past and her surroundings and ready to spring into action when needed.<\/strong> And boy is she needed. A nonfiction book by an ex-cultmember would be a great companion read to this: try Tara Westover\u2019s <em>Educated<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n some places it\u2019s easy to make good choices, and then there\u2019s Bad Axe County, Wisconsin, where Sherriff Heidi Kick has clawed her way out of addiction and onto the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[55,65],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-mystery-detective","tag-police-procedural"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Bad-Day-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Bad-Day-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\/2280","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=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}