{"id":4266,"date":"2025-04-17T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4266"},"modified":"2025-04-21T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T15:08:44","slug":"sounds-like-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4266","title":{"rendered":"Sounds Like Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This second novel in the \u201cSounds Like a Plan\u201d series provides the same high-energy, pedal-to-the-metal narrative as the first book, while keeping the romance between our two detectives very much alive and humor very much in evidence.<\/strong> Jackson Jones and Mackenzie \u201cMac\u201d Cunningham have barely set up their PI practice\u2014most of their office is still in boxes\u2014when they are summoned by three of Los Angeles\u2019s leading gangsters. Seems like these mobsters have an urgent matter on their hands, and even though they are big-time rivals, they have come together to command Jackson and Mac to take up the case. Specifically, they want them to locate a missing person who is likely close to death. What has the gangsters so worried? The fact that this missing person has been gathering dirt on the three of them for decades, and it will all become public information once he dies. As much as Jackson and Mac would like to say a big No! to this career opportunity, they aren\u2019t given that choice. With the clock ticking, these two detectives\u2014who can\u2019t even agree on how to decorate their office\u2014reluctantly head out into LA\u2019s ritziest neighborhoods with the LAPD right behind them. Fierce and fiery dialogue between the detectives helps to make this a winning series that offers crime fiction readers and adventurous romance readers much to enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This second novel in the \u201cSounds Like a Plan\u201d series provides the same high-energy, pedal-to-the-metal narrative as the first book, while keeping the romance between our two detectives very much&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-4266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-thriller"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Sounds-400x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Sounds.jpeg","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\/4266","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=4266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}