{"id":2518,"date":"2021-07-29T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2023-03-07T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T20:50:49","slug":"the-stalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":"The Stalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>nitially, this novel seems weighed down by clich\u00e9s: the weak, timid wife; the macho, type-A husband; the island rumored to be haunted. But keep going and you will be rewarded with <strong>a top-rate thriller which is nothing as it seems.<\/strong> Liam and Laura chose to spend their honeymoon on a remote Scottish island, empty except for the two of them. Their lovely cottage is stuffed with a week\u2019s worth of fine foods and wine, and all they plan to do is explore the island\u2019s ancient burial sites and ruined castle. Until things start to get weird\u2014is someone in the bushes watching them?\u2014and they wake to find a message scratched into the window. Clearly they aren\u2019t alone, and their one way of contact with the mainland, a satellite phone, is missing its charger. Then the electricity goes out. From there, it\u2019s clear that their stalker isn\u2019t playing trick or treat, he\u2019s out to murder them. You would expect this book to end with a face-off between the newlyweds and the villain, but a 180-degree twist ends up rewriting the whole book, leaving readers absolutely stunned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nitially, this novel seems weighed down by clich\u00e9s: the weak, timid wife; the macho, type-A husband; the island rumored to be haunted. But keep going and you will be rewarded&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[83,85,84,52,82,50],"class_list":["post-2518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-family","tag-holidays","tag-marriage-divorce","tag-psychological","tag-small-town-rural","tag-suspense"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Stalker-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Stalker-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\/2518","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=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}