{"id":3282,"date":"2023-11-09T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:48:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T16:48:49","slug":"one-of-the-good-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"One of the Good Guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be a fly on the wall when this explosive drama is discussed in book clubs. The \u201cgood guy\u201d whose behavior they will pick apart is Cole Simmonds; he\u2019s recently separated and has left London for the rural English coast. There he\u2019s picking up the pieces from a marriage that went wrong when the couple\u2019s attempts to have a child, including the trials of IVF, were all for nothing. Cole\u2019s wife Mel\u2014he\u2019s dragging his feet on the paperwork that will tie up all the loose ends\u2014now seems to hate him and he can\u2019t understand where it all went wrong. Mel\u2019s point of view, meanwhile, only coincides with Cole\u2019s in that both would agree that they\u2019ve split up. He\u2019s trying to move on and meets Lennie (he insists on calling her Leonora, our first hint at his controlling ways), an artist who also seems like a lonely soul. Both are pulled into the fray when young women on a nationally publicized walk to highlight the problem of male violence go missing near Cole\u2019s home. The social-media firestorm ignited by all this will be matched by the conversations in those book clubs I want to lurk in, as Hall looks at toxic masculinity from every angle: the oh-so-innocent man who\u2019s only controlling because he cares so much, the enraged men commenting about the case online, the system that ridicules women if they wait too long to report a sexual crime while torturing them once they do report. <strong>A gripping and controversial suspense.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be a fly on the wall when this explosive drama is discussed in book clubs. The \u201cgood guy\u201d whose behavior they will pick apart is Cole Simmonds;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[163,113,52,51],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-book-of-the-week","tag-feminist","tag-psychological","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Good-Guys-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Good-Guys-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}