{"id":3094,"date":"2023-08-24T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T15:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T15:07:00","slug":"trouble-in-queenstown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3094","title":{"rendered":"Trouble in Queenstown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This new title from Delia Pitts\u2014author of the Ross Agency series\u2014offers everything that fans of detective fiction are looking for. Vandy Myrick, a former cop\u2014she joined the force to impress her cop dad\u2014is now a detective in Queenstown, New Jersey, her hometown, where she sets up a firm with BFF and trial lawyer Elissa. They\u2019re two Black women in a town where racism, \u201ccasual like flip flops down the Jersey shore,\u201d is always bubbling right under the surface. Vandy\u2019s work is mainly divorce cases, and when she gets a call from the Mayor\u2019s nephew\u2014Queenstown royalty\u2014asking her to track his wife, she just assumes that one more \u201cQ-Town\u201d marriage has hit the rocks. Except this gig quickly spins out of control when Vandy walks in on a double homicide, one that the powers that be are all too eager to shut down. <strong>Pitts has written a strong narrative that ricochets from Vandy\u2019s tragic past to her gutsy present, keeping readers totally engaged to the very last page\u2026and eager for more.<\/strong> Fans of Robyn Gigl\u2019s thrillers will enjoy visiting New Jersey with Vandy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new title from Delia Pitts\u2014author of the Ross Agency series\u2014offers everything that fans of detective fiction are looking for. Vandy Myrick, a former cop\u2014she joined the force to impress&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[104,55,58,67,56],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-african-american-black","tag-mystery-detective","tag-private-investigators","tag-traditional","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Pitts-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Pitts.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\/3094","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=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}