{"id":2758,"date":"2023-04-06T15:39:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T15:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2023-04-20T18:21:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:21:17","slug":"the-bell-in-the-fog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2758","title":{"rendered":"The Bell in the Fog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What the world needs now is a great, queer detective, and Rosen is well on his way to creating him.<\/strong> The second in the series\u2014the first was fun but also a bit idiosyncratic\u2014this has the makings of a classic detective novel with a strong supporting cast. It\u2019s San Francisco in 1952, and we\u2019re back with struggling detective Andy Mills, whose home and office are above Ruby, a gay bar. Ex-navy and an ex-cop, Mills is still struggling to gain acceptance from the queer community. But along comes a case that may help him turn around his image. First one, then several people, it turns out, are being blackmailed\u2014sex photos taken in a hotel, holes drilled through the wall\u2014and Mills is on the case. But as with any good crime novel, the story isn\u2019t what you first expect, and soon Andy is reunited with his Navy flame who disappeared seven years ago. Set against the queer bars of the city, the continual raids orchestrated by the police, and the foggy bay itself, this book is powerfully atmospheric. It ends leaving Andy free from the past and ready for the future. Exactly what most readers will be waiting for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the world needs now is a great, queer detective, and Rosen is well on his way to creating him. The second in the series\u2014the first was fun but also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[54,69,55,58],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-historical","tag-lgbtq","tag-mystery-detective","tag-private-investigators"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Bell-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Bell-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\/2758","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=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}