{"id":2984,"date":"2023-07-13T15:30:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2023-07-27T15:16:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:16:33","slug":"the-mysterious-case-of-the-alperton-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2984","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This doozy of a thriller centers on true-crime author Amanda Bailey, who is working on a book about the Alperton Angels, a suicide cult that 18 years ago mostly killed itself off. Survivors were few: Gabriel, the now-jailed leader; a teen boy and girl, long disappeared; and their newborn baby, also gone missing. Finding the baby, now that he or she is reaching maturity, is central to the story\u2014and the success of Amanda\u2019s book. Like Hallett\u2019s previous novels (<em>The Appeal<\/em> and <em>The Twyford Code<\/em>), this book is immensely clever, written in a dossier style that serves up Amanda\u2019s research, communication, and discoveries, from emails to texts, from film treatments to transcripts, and from casual phone calls with her assistant to historical news stories. Another author, and sort of frenemy, Oliver Menzies, is also writing a book about the Angels, and eventually he and Amanda are forced to share their information, descending together into the deep, dark world of the Angels. <strong>Some will find the book\u2019s reliance on multiple texts too artificial, but most readers will be dazzled by Hallett\u2019s creativity, will enjoy their engagement in solving the book\u2019s many puzzles, and will love the dynamite conclusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This doozy of a thriller centers on true-crime author Amanda Bailey, who is working on a book about the Alperton Angels, a suicide cult that 18 years ago mostly killed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[152,51],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-crime","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Alperton-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Alperton-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\/2984","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=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}