{"id":2481,"date":"2021-09-02T01:48:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T01:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2023-04-02T23:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:06:12","slug":"and-there-he-kept-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2481","title":{"rendered":"And There He Kept Her."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the premise: two teens, a boy and a girl, break into Emmett Burr\u2019s house in search of opiates. The house is remote, set on Sandy Lake in northern Minnesota, and the kids just assume that Emmett, old and immensely obese, will be passed out. But everything that can go wrong, does go wrong. Emmett shoots and kills the boy, while the girl, Jenny, is chained and left in a cell in the basement. It\u2019s clear that she\u2019s just the latest in a series of girls who\u2019ve been locked up, abused, and eventually murdered. Fortunately, Jenny\u2019s mother is quick to notice that her daughter is missing; she calls Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Ben Packard, and the search is on. Ben, who recently moved from Minneapolis, spent his childhood summers on the lake; in fact, he\u2019s related to Jenny. Packard\u2019s search takes him to the dark underbelly of Sandy Lake, where alcoholism and drug abuse and violence and crime rule. Low-key Packard, who has his own secrets\u2014he\u2019s gay and just inching out of the closet\u2014is as compelling and potentially as complex a cop as Louise Penny\u2019s Armand Gamache. <strong>This is a remarkable debut\u2014sharp, suspenseful, and emotionally powerful\u2014sure to appeal to readers of Karin Slaughter and Lisa Gardner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the premise: two teens, a boy and a girl, break into Emmett Burr\u2019s house in search of opiates. The house is remote, set on Sandy Lake in northern Minnesota,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[55,65,164],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-mystery-detective","tag-police-procedural","tag-star"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Kept-Her-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Kept-Her.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\/2481","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=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}