{"id":4206,"date":"2025-03-20T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:30:46","slug":"dying-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4206","title":{"rendered":"Dying Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vacation\/honeymoon for Mattie and Cole Walker, along with Cole\u2019s young daughters, quickly goes awry in Mizushima\u2019s (<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3540\">Gathering Mist<\/a><\/strong><\/em>) latest when the family is out snowshoeing and they hear a scream. Cole and the girls return to the lodge for help, while Mattie stays behind with her K-9 companion, Robo. They see someone hurt, but before they can get there to assist, a rockslide buries the victim, and if it weren\u2019t for quick thinking, Robo would have been buried as well. The investigation proves rocky when Mattie realizes that the victim is someone her family knows; he\u2019s the husband of Cole\u2019s veterinary assistant, Tess. Mattie works with the investigative team for Timber Creek County, and when they start digging, the clues and evidence mount for Tess\u2019s guilt. Isn\u2019t it always the spouse? Mattie doesn\u2019t believe it could be Tess, but the more she tries to prove her friend\u2019s innocence, the more she puts her family in the crosshairs of a dangerous person who is willing to kill again. <strong>Mizushima has a terrific series with the Walkers and life in the fictitious Colorado Timber Creek County. Robo, her K-9 assistant, continues to shine.<\/strong> Ten books in, and Mizushima still gets better with every entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vacation\/honeymoon for Mattie and Cole Walker, along with Cole\u2019s young daughters, quickly goes awry in Mizushima\u2019s (Gathering Mist) latest when the family is out snowshoeing and they hear a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[55,65,51,56],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-mystery-detective","tag-police-procedural","tag-thrillers","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Dying-400x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Dying-400x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Jeff Ayers","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=6"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}