{"id":3314,"date":"2023-11-30T17:33:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T17:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2023-12-14T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:30:09","slug":"the-trials-of-lila-dalton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3314","title":{"rendered":"The Trials of Lila Dalton"},"content":{"rendered":"

This brilliantly disorienting debut<\/strong> takes place on Assumption Island, a cold, rocky British outpost in the north Atlantic. Lila Dalton finds herself in an island courtroom being addressed by an impatient judge who clearly expects her to argue for her client. Lila has no idea how she got to this courtroom, how to be a barrister, what the case is\u2026she doesn\u2019t know anything, including who the stranger in the mirror is. Things take a turn for the (even) worse when she gets anonymous notes telling her that she\u2019d better win acquittal for the murderer she\u2019s representing if she ever wants to see her daughter again (that would be the daughter she didn\u2019t know she had). The various characters working for and against Lila (we\u2019re often unsure which direction a character is leaning, adding to the dark, compelling tale) are well drawn, with each adding complications and drama. Spare but gripping dialog propels the strange story to an appropriately dizzying conclusion. For fans of Herv\u00e9 Le Tellier\u2019s The Anomaly<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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