{"id":4487,"date":"2025-07-10T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T23:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2025-07-13T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:57:33","slug":"simultaneous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4487","title":{"rendered":"Simultaneous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Therapist Sarah Newcomb can\u2019t get her fianc\u00e9 to commit to a wedding date. Still, doubts about their relationship take a back seat when one of her clients reveals evidence of a potential copycat killer. Newcomb uses past-life regression to help her clients overcome trauma, but this patient unveils a time in the future, and this part of their divided soul works as a homicide detective. Trying to prove her client is making up material, she learns from that split soul of a natural gas explosion that will kill seven people in New Mexico the next day. The following morning, federal agent Grant Lukather from Homeland Security visits a site in New Mexico where seven people died in a natural gas explosion. He learns of a 911 call that came in the day before, warning of the blast. Tracing the phone number puts him in Sarah\u2019s office. <strong>The twists and turns that follow are wild and completely unpredictable, and the story only gets better as it becomes increasingly complex.<\/strong> Heisserer received an Oscar nomination for screenwriting for the film <em>Arrival<\/em>, and he delivers the cinematic scope and intensity of a novel-writing pro. And the ending! It\u2019s hard to believe this is his first novel, and readers will eagerly want more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Therapist Sarah Newcomb can\u2019t get her fianc\u00e9 to commit to a wedding date. Still, doubts about their relationship take a back seat when one of her clients reveals evidence of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[163,180,210,73,63,51],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-book-of-the-week","tag-debut","tag-multiple-timelines","tag-science-fiction","tag-supernatural","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Simul-388x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Simul.jpeg","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\/4487","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=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}