{"id":3210,"date":"2023-10-12T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2023-10-26T15:59:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T15:59:24","slug":"public-anchovy-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3210","title":{"rendered":"Public Anchovy #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delilah and the crew from her restaurant, the upscale pizzeria Delilah &#038; Son (Son is short for Sonya, Delilah\u2019s best friend and sous chef), are at Bluff Point, an opulent, old mansion on Wisconsin\u2019s Geneva Bay. They\u2019re catering the Friends of the Library\u2019s fundraising gala\u2014an opportunity to show off their skills and bolster the declining winter business\u2014and the menu does look fantastic. Too bad that the guests hardly get to sample anything more than the appetizers when Edgar Clemmons, outgoing board chair\u2014and quite bitter about his departure\u2014falls down the staircase, landing at the bottom like a broken marionette. Murder or accident? It\u2019s hard to say, since Edgar shared a number of vague secrets with several people before he took his tumble. The man\u2019s demise sends many scurrying home, although a powerful storm has moved in\u2014downed trees, exposed power lines\u2014prohibiting law enforcement from reaching Bluff Point and keeping a dozen or so attendees, including Delilah and her staff, in the mansion for the night. Here the mystery morphs into a closed circle, with an assemblage that includes Delilah\u2019s crush, police detective Calvin Capone; and Butterball, her cat, who takes on quite the active role in this title. As with the other books in the series, Quigley balances wonderful character development and plenty of low-key humor with the search for a killer. <strong>It\u2019s hard to imagine a cozy fan who wouldn\u2019t find this book to be a total delight.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delilah and the crew from her restaurant, the upscale pizzeria Delilah &#038; Son (Son is short for Sonya, Delilah\u2019s best friend and sous chef), are at Bluff Point, an opulent,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,76,77,55,56],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-cozy","tag-culinary","tag-mystery-detective","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Anchovy-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Anchovy-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\/3210","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=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}