{"id":3719,"date":"2024-06-20T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2024-07-11T15:46:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T15:46:15","slug":"the-gonif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3719","title":{"rendered":"The Gonif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work has been sparse for detective Amos Parisman. He\u2019s getting older, while his wife, whose dementia has become more advanced, requires greater attention. So when he\u2019s asked to take on a job protecting a rare Torah\u2014it was smuggled out of a North African Jewish community during World War II and somehow made its way to a small, rundown Sephardic temple in Hollywood\u2014Amos is quick to say yes. A small, easy job, what could go wrong? Just wait and see. A bit of a classic gumshoe and a bit of a luft-mensch, or dreamer, Amos brings on his usual cast of characters to help out, from former-wrestler Omar to cousin Shelly to LAPD Lieutenant Bill Malloy (the two guardedly share information.) It\u2019s a delight to follow Amos as he rolls around Los Angeles County, following potential leads while immersing himself in the world of rare books. <strong>Weinberger never fails to deliver a novel that\u2019s as rich in character as it is in environment. Save it for that weekend when you need to escape.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work has been sparse for detective Amos Parisman. He\u2019s getting older, while his wife, whose dementia has become more advanced, requires greater attention. So when he\u2019s asked to take on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[60,55,58],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-jewish","tag-mystery-detective","tag-private-investigators"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Gonif-400x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Gonif-400x600.png","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\/3719","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=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}