{"id":3360,"date":"2024-01-04T16:47:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2024-01-18T17:38:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T17:38:34","slug":"the-queen-city-detective-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3360","title":{"rendered":"The Queen City Detective Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year\u2019s Day 1985, as the countdown to Ronald Reagan\u2019s second presidential inauguration begins, Turnip Coogan, in custody for the murder of real estate developer Randall Hubbard, falls from the roof of the courthouse in downtown Meridian, Mississippi. It may be morning in the rest of America, but that Reaganite optimism has bypassed the state\u2019s \u201cQueen City,&#8221; where strip malls developed by the late Hubbard have \u201csucked the life out of the city\u2019s downtown\u201d and its convenient location between New Orleans and Atlanta has made Meridian \u201ca vital pit stop in the loosely affiliated crime belt of the Deep South.\u201d Knowing of her son\u2019s connection to the notorious Dixie Mafia, Lenora Coogan is convinced that his death was neither an accident nor a suicide and hires Black cop-turned-private investigator Clementine Baldwin and her white partner, Dixon Hicks, to find the \u201csons of bitches who killed him.\u201d Complicating the investigation is the still-jailed Odette Hubbard, who had recruited Turnip to kill her husband and then canceled the hit job. She wants Clem and Dixon to identify the real killer, a request that puts a target on Clem\u2019s back. Jim Crow laws may be a thing of the past, but Clem still must battle old-fashioned racism as she goes after the city\u2019s powerbrokers. <strong>Wright\u2019s (<em>American Pop<\/em>) Southern noir introduces a compelling, complex, bourbon-loving sleuth who both loathes and loves her hometown.<\/strong> Her budding friendship with Dixon will have readers anticipating their next crime-solving adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year\u2019s Day 1985, as the countdown to Ronald Reagan\u2019s second presidential inauguration begins, Turnip Coogan, in custody for the murder of real estate developer Randall Hubbard, falls from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[104,55,78,119,192,111],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-african-american-black","tag-mystery-detective","tag-noir","tag-private-investigator","tag-small-town","tag-southern"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Queen-City-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Queen-City-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Willy Williams","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=7"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}