{"id":3824,"date":"2024-08-22T01:39:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2024-09-23T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T15:21:57","slug":"love-the-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3824","title":{"rendered":"Love the Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queens native son and former high-powered Manhattan attorney Ted Molloy is rebuilding his once-stellar legal career. His fancy office is now Gallagher\u2019s Pub, where he partners with LesterYoung McKinley on foreclosure investment deals and represents his activist girlfriend, Kenzie Zielenski\u2019s, organization in its battle to stop the construction of \u201cthe Spike,\u201d a mega-development project threatening Corona\u2019s immigrant communities. As the campaign against billionaire real-estate developer Ron Reisner heats up, someone attempts to sabotage Ted\u2019s legal efforts and undermine Kenzie\u2019s reputation. At the same time, Kenzie worries that a shady immigration lawyer is cheating Mohammed, a recent Yemeni immigrant who chauffeurs Kenzie in his cab. Dropping by the lawyer\u2019s office one morning, she stumbles upon his body and spots a shadowy figure fleeing the scene. Could it be Mohammed\u2019s 14-year-old stepson, Haidir? <strong>In the entertaining follow-up to his 2022 Nero Award winner <em>Tower of Babel,<\/em> Sears vividly captures the corrupt seediness of local real estate development dominated by big money and embraces the \u201ckaleidoscope of colors, classes, and ethnicities\u201d that marks New York\u2019s largest borough.<\/strong> Fans of Dennis Lehane\u2019s Boston-based Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro series will enjoy following the gritty adventures of a flawed but appealing sleuthing couple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queens native son and former high-powered Manhattan attorney Ted Molloy is rebuilding his once-stellar legal career. His fancy office is now Gallagher\u2019s Pub, where he partners with LesterYoung McKinley on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[132,55,58],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-city-life","tag-mystery-detective","tag-private-investigators"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Stranger-1-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Stranger-1.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\/3824","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=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}