{"id":3152,"date":"2023-09-14T17:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2023-09-28T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T15:28:24","slug":"bad-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"Bad Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the year in which British women are taking up arms\u2014or knives, poisons, or other instruments\u2014and knocking off the bad men in their lives, from abusive husbands to rapist uncles to misogynistic politicians. Saffy Huntley-Oliver\u2014socialite, thrice an heiress, and a devoted serial killer\u2014loves nothing more than eliminating such men. \u201cKilling bad men is my private hobby, my passion project, the thing that makes me tick. It’s my own humble attempt at smashing the patriarchy.” She got her start early on by drowning her stepfather, who was abusing her and about to move on to her younger sister, and she hasn\u2019t stopped since. Until she crosses paths with famed podcaster and big-time crush Jon Desrosiers, who has made a career out of tracking down serial killers, often aiding the police. Can opposites attract? It’s rough at first, as Jon is going through his own troubles\u2014like a divorce\u2014and is ready to give up his obsession with serial killers (is he glamorizing them?) in the hopes of winning his wife back. It\u2019s one part rom-com and two parts crime fiction as the story expertly ricochets between Saffy and Jon. Every detail is absolutely perfect, from Saffy\u2019s posh wardrobe and lavish apartment to Jon\u2019s rescue dog, Girl, and the annoyance of fandom. Humorous? Totally. Dark? Absolutely. A debut? Impressive.<\/strong> For more feminist murderers, try How To Kill Men and Get Away With It<\/em>, How to Kill Your Family<\/em>, and The Best Way to Bury Your Husband<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the year in which British women are taking up arms\u2014or knives, poisons, or other instruments\u2014and knocking off the bad men in their lives, from abusive husbands to rapist…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[180,52,51],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-debut","tag-psychological","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Bad-Men-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Bad-Men.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\/3152","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=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}