{"id":2456,"date":"2021-09-16T02:01:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T02:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2023-03-06T02:02:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T02:02:46","slug":"who-took-eden-mulligan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2456","title":{"rendered":"Who Took Eden Mulligan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps inspired by the real-life disappearance of Northern Ireland mother Jean McConville, Dempsey invites us inside two crimes. The first is a murderous attack on five roommates, and then there\u2019s the cold case resurrected by the message scrawled on their wall: Who Took Eden Mulligan? Eden\u2019s children, now adults, have been adamant in the decades since her disappearance that she wouldn\u2019t leave them, but the woman was an enigmatic outsider in \u201ca pit of savagery and subterfuge.\u201d A Protestant living in a Catholic area of Belfast, she looked a mite too good for neighbors to care about her fate. Detective Danny Stowe has lots to lose in his inquiries\u2014he\u2019s on thin ice after smashing a perpetrator\u2019s head against a wall and needs this win. For that, and more personal reasons, he persuades his best friend from college, a forensic psychologist who\u2019s enduring her own issues, to join the investigation. The old and new cases, and the broken families involved, bring forth the weariness of living in sectarian strife, a mundanity that\u2019s broken by moments of horror.<strong> Dempsey excels in portraying the anger that emerges when the dreamy veil of struggle lifts to reveal political violence as \u201ca cover for psychopaths.\u201d<\/strong> Read this for both a satisfying puzzle and an inside look at a culture turned sour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps inspired by the real-life disappearance of Northern Ireland mother Jean McConville, Dempsey invites us inside two crimes. The first is a murderous attack on five roommates, and then there\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[66,64,55,65,51],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-action-adventure","tag-international","tag-mystery-detective","tag-police-procedural","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Mulligan-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Mulligan-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\/2456","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=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}