{"id":2361,"date":"2021-12-23T18:59:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2023-04-02T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:04:00","slug":"the-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2361","title":{"rendered":"The Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A richly imagined novel in which the elements of suspense grow organically from the characters\u2019 lives. Fifty-something Rachel, a doctor, has a tidy, if dull, life with her husband of many years, a medical practice she enjoys, and a beautiful home in the cathedral town of Salisbury. Her one regret is adult daughter Lizzie, who is totally over her mother (\u201cTake a break Mum, stop texting me!\u201d). When French painter Luc walks into Rachel\u2019s office\u2014he and his family are new to town and he\u2019s experiencing psychological issues\u2014the attraction is immediate, although left unfulfilled. Meanwhile, Rachel suspects she is being followed, her husband is acting weirdly, and Lizzie is keeping something from her. Eventually she and Luc reunite and\u2014professional ethics be damned!\u2014initiate their affair while in the south of France. Affairs can peter out, some manage to live on in secrecy, while others are exposed, creating scandal. But Rachel and Luc\u2019s relationship razes their world\u2014leading to murder, incarceration, and abandonment. Way to throw away those middle-class inhibitions! <strong>Readers will be seduced by Shemilt\u2019s ability to gradually build a story, leading us from the mundane to the miraculous.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A richly imagined novel in which the elements of suspense grow organically from the characters\u2019 lives. Fifty-something Rachel, a doctor, has a tidy, if dull, life with her husband of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[164,50,51],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-star","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Paitent-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Paitent-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}