{"id":2454,"date":"2021-09-23T21:01:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T21:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2023-04-02T23:05:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:05:27","slug":"the-book-of-cold-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2454","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Cold Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A medical receptionist by day, Shea Collins operates a popular true-crime website that specializes in cold cases. Single, a loner, and herself a victim\u2014she was abducted as a child\u2014Shea reserves her passions for her blog. Until the day that Beth Greer comes to Shea\u2019s office. Back in 1977, Greer was tried and acquitted in the Lady Killer Murders, in which two men were killed, seemingly for the fun of it, by a female serial killer. Since then, the beautiful, sophisticated, and super-rich Beth has spoken to nearly no one\u2014making it all the more remarkable that she agrees to be interviewed by Shea. Beth slowly opens up to the interviewer\u2014inviting her into her super creepy mansion and deeply introspective life\u2014as Shea struggles to put together the fragments Beth shares. <strong>This novel is beautifully written and perfectly paced<\/strong>. It creates a powerful sense of place in its depiction of an Oregon coastal community, and doesn\u2019t shy away from tackling larger social issues, such as the sexism Beth experienced throughout her trial. Finally, its use of the paranormal\u2014something I typically shy away from\u2014is as terrifying as it is credible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A medical receptionist by day, Shea Collins operates a popular true-crime website that specializes in cold cases. Single, a loner, and herself a victim\u2014she was abducted as a child\u2014Shea reserves&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[164,63,50,51,53],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-star","tag-supernatural","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Cold-Cases-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Cold-Cases-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\/2454","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=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}