{"id":4316,"date":"2025-05-08T20:14:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T20:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:17:53","slug":"death-on-dickens-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4316","title":{"rendered":"Death on Dickens Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny Dickens Island, located in the sound between Connecticut and Long Island, has a small permanent population composed of families in the midst of some sort of feud or another. Delia has come back after years of living in Manhattan to take up her role as mother to teenage Connor and part manager of the family\u2019s general store. She\u2019s inherited her grandmother\u2019s house and for now is loving being back, though is unsure of her maternal success. Connor finds a secret room in grandma\u2019s house with old books and what may be a pirate map. Delia encounters grandma\u2019s ghost, who visits the room occasionally and offers a unique perspective on island history. The map is stolen by local miscreants and doesn\u2019t lead to treasure but rather to a long-buried body that brings old scandals to the present. With logic, the help of an old love, and grandma\u2019s ghost, Delia puts much of the puzzle together, leading to a solution to the murders and to some of the family feuds. <strong>An enjoyable, sandy cozy with the author\u2019s promise of more to come from Dickens Island.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny Dickens Island, located in the sound between Connecticut and Long Island, has a small permanent population composed of families in the midst of some sort of feud or another.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,240,76,55,56],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-books","tag-cozy","tag-mystery-detective","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Dick-400x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Dick.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Danise Hoover","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=12"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}