{"id":3863,"date":"2024-09-12T15:51:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3863"},"modified":"2024-10-01T00:57:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T00:57:38","slug":"serial-killer-support-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3863","title":{"rendered":"Serial Killer Support Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of the best\u2014and most shocking\u2014narratives of revenge I\u2019ve ever encountered, and one that even saves room for a bit of humor.<\/strong> Cyra\u2019s younger sister Mira has been murdered, apparently by a serial killer. It\u2019s been over a month, and Cyra has grown increasingly frustrated at the tepid response from the New York Police Department: \u201cLet us do our jobs.\u201d Since Mira died, nearly everything\u2014Cyra\u2019s job, her relationship with her ex-girlfriend, the small group of friends she and Mira share, her apartment in Queens\u2014is rapidly unraveling. Big sister Cyra has always taken care of Mira, and if she couldn\u2019t stop Mira from being murdered, at least she can find her murderer. With some help from a friend, Cyra learns about a self-help group for serial killers\u2014kind of funny, kind of not\u2014and successfully infiltrates the group, creating a persona as a murderer. She claims to work in a nursing home, preying on the elderly, and manages to convince the guys (yes, it\u2019s an all boy\u2019s club) to let her join their group. Her goal? To learn if any of the members murdered Mira, or at least knows who did. But creating an identity as a serial killer has its own unanticipated consequences, and the more involved Cyra becomes in the support group, the more she finds her old self slipping away. Schaefer\u2019s story is dark and twisted, unique, and totally engrossing. Readers who enjoy this book may also appreciate Oyinkan Braithwaite\u2019s <em>My Sister, the Serial Killer<\/em> and Peter Swanson\u2019s <em>A Talent for Murder<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best\u2014and most shocking\u2014narratives of revenge I\u2019ve ever encountered, and one that even saves room for a bit of humor. Cyra\u2019s younger sister Mira has been murdered, apparently&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,163,180,55,56],"class_list":["post-3863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-book-of-the-week","tag-debut","tag-mystery-detective","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Support-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Support.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\/3863","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=3863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}