{"id":2892,"date":"2023-05-18T21:45:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T21:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2023-09-20T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T17:37:25","slug":"the-second-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2892","title":{"rendered":"The Second Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An incredibly taut \u201clocked inn\u201d suspense novel that features just a handful of characters over an intense eight hours.<\/strong> We\u2019re in a small hotel in the Scottish Highlands with a blizzard raging. It\u2019s incredibly remote, and the only other sign of life is Porterfell, a prison far in the distance. It\u2019s Remie Yorke\u2019s last night managing the hotel\u2014not that there is that much to manage with just two guests, one of whom has disappeared. In the morning, Remie will be on her way to Chile with no plans to ever return to Scotland. Meanwhile, the hotel grows even more isolated as the roads shut down and phone lines and internet access die. Suddenly a police officer, Don Gaines, appears. Beat-up, he claims to have been in an accident transporting a prisoner from Porterfell\u2014a dangerous prisoner who\u2019s now on the loose. Gaines goes about securing the hotel, when another officer shows up claiming to be Officer Don Gaines. He\u2019s just as convincing, with the appropriate identification. Will the real Donald Gaines please stand up? Lest it seems as though I\u2019m sharing spoilers, be assured that this is just the beginning. There\u2019s plenty more to be revealed in this absolute nail-biter of a thriller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An incredibly taut \u201clocked inn\u201d suspense novel that features just a handful of characters over an intense eight hours. We\u2019re in a small hotel in the Scottish Highlands with a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[55,67],"class_list":["post-2892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-mystery-detective","tag-traditional"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/2nd-Stranger-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/2nd-Stranger-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\/2892","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=2892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}