{"id":3669,"date":"2024-05-16T00:46:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T00:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2024-06-13T15:17:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T15:17:19","slug":"dead-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3669","title":{"rendered":"Dead Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dead money is slang for wealth that\u2019s held up by a clause in a will, and after Elon Musk-type Trevor Canon is found dead in his San Francisco tech-bro office, investigator Mackenzie Clyde finds that he recently had just such an amendment inserted into his will. A lawyer who now works as a sort of fixer at a venture capital firm, Mackenzie isn&#8217;t the most likely candidate to help the FBI with their case, but she\u2019s ambitious and jumps at the chance when her boss wants to know what happened. Investigating Trevor\u2019s associates is much more complicated than it should be. She\u2019s also subjected to more exposed ankles in mens suits than she\u2019d like, not to mention corporate babble like one associate\u2019s drive to \u201cleverage the leader that lays dormant within clients\u2026to manifest a corporate identity in ways they\u2019ve never crystallized\u201d (snort). The FBI agent she works with, a rich kid who bucks the stereotypes of his upbringing, is having none of it, and together the duo relentlessly digs to the center of a technical and political tangle. Get ready for some startling revelations along the way.<strong> Lawyer and debut author Kerr was one of the first employees at Airbnb, and his absorption of the BS is our gain.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead money is slang for wealth that\u2019s held up by a clause in a will, and after Elon Musk-type Trevor Canon is found dead in his San Francisco tech-bro office,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[180,55,58,50,51],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-debut","tag-mystery-detective","tag-private-investigators","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Dead--400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Dead-.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\/3669","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=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}