{"id":2508,"date":"2021-08-12T16:56:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T16:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2023-03-07T16:57:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:57:39","slug":"front-page-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2508","title":{"rendered":"Front Page Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, another cover featuring a woman in a period outfit with her back turned towards us\u2014except this time the book is a rollicking good mystery. It\u2019s World War II, the U.S. has just entered the war, and Irene Ingram\u2019s fianc\u00e9 and father have both enlisted, leaving Irene to step into her father\u2019s shoes as editor-in-chief of the <em>Progress Herald<\/em>, the local paper. Young\u2014she\u2019s in her early twenties\u2014and female, Irene has to continually prove herself, whether it\u2019s to her mother who doesn\u2019t believe women belong in the workforce or to the newspaper staff who bridle under a woman\u2019s leadership. When her star reporter, Moe Bauer, is discovered dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs, Irene has more pressing matters to attend to than the grousing among her staff, all the more so when she figures out that Moe was likely murdered. Then Sam Markowicz, owner of the local hardware store, becomes the victim of anti-Semitic harassment, and another man, also Jewish, is attacked in a local factory. Irene puts aside features about victory gardens and the like and dives into a criminal investigation. The setting\u2014small time life during World War II\u2014is a brilliant choice, and the language and references are pitch perfect.<strong> Fans of Jacqueline Winspear\u2019s Maisie Dobbs, Rhys Bowen\u2019s Molly Murphy, and Mariah Frederick\u2019s Jane Prescott will enjoy meeting Irene Ingram.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, another cover featuring a woman in a period outfit with her back turned towards us\u2014except this time the book is a rollicking good mystery. It\u2019s World War II, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,54,55,56],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-historical","tag-mystery-detective","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Front-Page-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Front-Page-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\/2508","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=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}