{"id":4326,"date":"2025-05-15T00:28:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T00:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2025-05-16T00:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T00:33:49","slug":"what-about-the-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4326","title":{"rendered":"What about the Bodies?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Their messiness portrayed with cringe-inducing accuracy, hapless characters strive to survive what life throws at them\u2014and it’s a lot\u2014in Edgar-nominated Jaworowski\u2019s latest. Reed, a young man who\u2019s autistic, has just lost the person at the center of his life. He wants to do the right thing, and\u2026kind of\u2026wants to do what his brother, who is his guardian, asks, but surely a little excursion to keep a promise won\u2019t hurt anyone. Then there\u2019s Billy, another resident of Locksburg, PA, who needs his single-mother\u2019s help to hide one of the bodies of the title. It\u2019s not a fresh body, leading to some gruesome scenes but mostly to edge-of-your-seat moments as the two struggle to stop their lives from sliding even deeper into darkness. Trying to escape the town is Liz, a musician who\u2019s taken up with a local bad boy who, you guessed it, gets both of them into trouble just as she\u2019s on the brink of getting out. These all-too-realistic lives collide in a memorably character-driven story whose dialog\u2014especially that of Liz\u2014will make readers laugh even as they despair that anything can ever go right in Locksburg. Plenty of readers love a small-town thriller and this one\u2019s just the ticket.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Their messiness portrayed with cringe-inducing accuracy, hapless characters strive to survive what life throws at them\u2014and it’s a lot\u2014in Edgar-nominated Jaworowski\u2019s latest. Reed, a young man who\u2019s autistic, has just…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[82,241,51],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-small-town-rural","tag-suspense-fiction","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Bodies-400x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Bodies-400x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}