{"id":3578,"date":"2024-04-12T01:14:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T01:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2024-12-05T17:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T17:25:37","slug":"murder-in-an-italian-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3578","title":{"rendered":"Murder in an Italian Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Falco\u2019s novels are a bit like War and Peace, if Tolstoy wrote cozies set on the Amalfi coast. They are big and sprawling, as rich with characters\u2014most family, many returnees\u2014as they are rich in plot. But at the center of the book stands Bria Bartolucci, the young widow and mother who moved to Positano to open a B&#038;B, now a great success. But bad things still happen, and when a famous chef is murdered\u2014poisoned!\u2014while filming a cooking show, it\u2019s Bria who is right next to him. From there we are off and running as Bria attempts to solve who murdered the chef\u2014an endeavor that is wrapped up in a series of smaller mysteries, likely suspects, and red herrings\u2014without getting killed herself. <strong>Come for the mystery, but stay for the wonderful humor and the familial love.<\/strong> Some diversity\u2014doesn\u2019t every family have at least one queer cousin?\u2014would go far in making the series more credible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Falco\u2019s novels are a bit like War and Peace, if Tolstoy wrote cozies set on the Amalfi coast. They are big and sprawling, as rich with characters\u2014most family, many&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,64,55,56],"class_list":["post-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-international","tag-mystery-detective","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Italian-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Italian.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\/3578","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=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}