{"id":2642,"date":"2021-10-28T15:10:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2023-03-12T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T15:14:01","slug":"one-of-us-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"One of Us Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rose (<em>The Perfect Marriage<\/em>) brings to life the rich, overly botoxed women of Buckhead, GA. Mainly showpieces for their uber-wealthy husbands, they spend their passive-aggressive days at Glow, a membership-only beauty salon where the women commit to several treatments per week. Jenny, Glow\u2019s owner, is stuck being nice to Olivia, the queen bitch of Buckhead, who has mastered the \u201ckinsult,\u201d or kind insult (\u201cyour skin is glowing\u2026I can barely notice the lack of elasticity today\u201d). Olivia\u2019s abused minions include Shannon, the saddest woman in the book, whose politician ex-husband, Bryce, left her for a younger woman. The \u201cgirls,\u201d and perhaps readers, want to hate Crystal, \u201cBryce\u2019s midlife crisis,\u201d but Rose doesn\u2019t take the easy way out, creating in Crystal a more layered character than at first expected. Then there\u2019s Karen, a luxury-real-estate lawyer who keeps the book and the \u201cfriends\u201d as grounded as they can be. Chapters narrated by each of the women alternate with ones in which Jenny is being questioned by police about what exactly happened at Bryce and Crystal\u2019s housewarming, an opulent event that featured a murder. <strong>Rose\u2019s writing is pitch perfect<\/strong> when it comes to both keeping readers gripped and making them want to tear Olivia\u2019s (beautifully done) hair out. <strong>If you enjoyed <em>Clueless<\/em> and other mean girls movies and books, this is for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rose (The Perfect Marriage) brings to life the rich, overly botoxed women of Buckhead, GA. Mainly showpieces for their uber-wealthy husbands, they spend their passive-aggressive days at Glow, a membership-only&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[93,50,51,53],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-friendship","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/One-of-Us-is-Dead-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/One-of-Us-is-Dead-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}