{"id":2606,"date":"2021-06-03T20:36:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T20:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2023-03-09T20:37:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T20:37:47","slug":"deadly-summer-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2606","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Summer Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A midsize Catskill resort in the 1950s provides a rich setting for Delany\u2019s latest series. Elizabeth Grady manages the resort, while her mother, Olivia\u2014a retired theater and film star who inherited the venue\u2014loafs about, deigning to occasionally show up at cocktail hour to dazzle the guests. Keeping the Haggerman\u2019s Resort profitable is serious work, and Grady doesn\u2019t think things can get any busier, when the body of one of the guests\u2014loner Harold Westenham, a former college professor\u2014is found floating in the lake. If that doesn\u2019t cause enough of a ruckus, the police find a copy of <em>The Communist Manifesto<\/em> in Westenham\u2019s cabin, bringing in the FBI and fueling a red scare among the guests. Faced with a hostile police force, Grady ends up taking on the investigation herself. While the detective work is low-key, and the resolution falls pretty much in Elizabeth\u2019s lap, the real pleasures of this book lie in its setting, period, and characters, all of which are wonderfully realized. <strong>Cozy readers will be happy to return to Haggerman\u2019s Catskill Resort any time.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A midsize Catskill resort in the 1950s provides a rich setting for Delany\u2019s latest series. Elizabeth Grady manages the resort, while her mother, Olivia\u2014a retired theater and film star who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2607,"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-2606","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\/Deadly-Summer--400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Deadly-Summer--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\/2606","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=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}