{"id":3322,"date":"2023-12-14T17:23:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3322"},"modified":"2023-12-24T17:05:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T17:05:55","slug":"a-talent-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3322","title":{"rendered":"A Talent for Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Librarian Martha Ratliff doesn\u2019t expect to marry\u2014isn\u2019t running a public library in Maine satisfying enough?\u2014until she meets Alan. A traveling salesman, Alan sells novelty items like t-shirts (\u201cMath teachers aren\u2019t mean. They\u2019re above average\u201d) at academic conferences. But as sweet as Alan might be, there\u2019s something a bit off. Martha can\u2019t help but do a little research, only to discover that five of the cities Alan visited have unsolved cases of murdered women, with all killed during Alan\u2019s stay. Coincidence? Add to this the blood she finds on one of his dress shirts and Martha\u2019s on the phone to Lily Kinter, a buddy from library school who helped Martha escape from an abusive boyfriend years ago. Could Martha be married to a serial killer? But Lily has her own baggage, and what started as a simple mystery explodes into a fascinating, dark, and complex novel of suspense. <strong>Every true-crime reader will find something to appreciate in this hugely inventive novel.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Librarian Martha Ratliff doesn\u2019t expect to marry\u2014isn\u2019t running a public library in Maine satisfying enough?\u2014until she meets Alan. A traveling salesman, Alan sells novelty items like t-shirts (\u201cMath teachers aren\u2019t&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[50,51],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Talent-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Talent.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\/3322","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=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}