{"id":2528,"date":"2021-07-22T22:14:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T22:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2023-03-07T22:15:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T22:15:35","slug":"repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2528","title":{"rendered":"Repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 1981 and Inspector Joaqu\u00edn Alzada has one goal: to keep his head down and avoid trouble. Not so easy when you are a cop in Buenos Aires during a period of extreme political turmoil, with Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo bearing daily witness to the thousands of citizens who have been made disappeared. But when his activist brother Jorge is among the missing, Joaqu\u00edn has no choice but to use his political chips and try to save his brother. Flip to twenty years later, when Argentina is facing a serious economic crisis, with middle-class citizens going hungry and taking to the streets. Again, Joaqu\u00edn\u2019s reaction is to lie low\u2014he\u2019s close to retirement, after all\u2014but circumstances won\u2019t allow it. For one thing, the body of a woman is found, dumped near the morgue, while at the same time one of Buenos Aires\u2019s wealthiest women has gone missing. Are they a match? Then, the twenty-something son of Jorge\u2014raised by Joaqu\u00edn and his wife\u2014joins the protestors. Repentance isn\u2019t so much crime fiction as it is fiction embedded in crime, and D\u00edaz skillfully uses Joaqu\u00edn\u2019s inner voice\u2014poignant, dryly witty, anxious\u2014to move the narrative along. <strong>A powerful first novel that brilliantly illuminates a country, a historical period, and an individual.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 1981 and Inspector Joaqu\u00edn Alzada has one goal: to keep his head down and avoid trouble. Not so easy when you are a cop in Buenos Aires during a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[89,64,55,65,90,51],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-hispanic-latino","tag-international","tag-mystery-detective","tag-police-procedural","tag-political","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Repentance-396x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Repentance-396x600.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\/2528","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=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}