{"id":4573,"date":"2025-08-21T20:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:26:34","slug":"lost-in-the-garden-of-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4573","title":{"rendered":"Lost in the Garden of Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keke McCoy is an Indian Springs, GA, reporter who\u2019s investigating the deaths of teenage dancers at a local strip club as she recovers from injuries received in her previous investigation. Not one to take things easy, she\u2019s soon back in the thick of the town\u2019s underworld as she\u2019s a former stripper herself and can perfectly blend in as undercover in the club where she used to work. Confusing the job is that the detective also working the case is her former\u2014well, sometimes current\u2014boyfriend, Drew, who\u2019s now engaged to someone else, a woman who\u2019s none too happy with Keke. Also not enamored of her won\u2019t-back-down ethic are the town\u2019s good ol\u2019 boys who take the bodies of Keke and the other \u201ccolored gals\u201d as their birthright. Paired with awful abuse\u2014including that of a young woman whose mother is her pimp\u2014and tawdry behavior by entitled locals are Bible passages about Eve that highlight her plight and pious behavior by a bigwig family who are ripe for a fall. <strong>Divine shines a bright light on social issues in still-segregated small towns and brings memorable characters to a tense, satisfying showdown. More from Keke and Drew, please!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keke McCoy is an Indian Springs, GA, reporter who\u2019s investigating the deaths of teenage dancers at a local strip club as she recovers from injuries received in her previous investigation.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[55,56],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-mystery-detective","tag-women-sleuths"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Evbe-400x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Evbe.jpeg","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\/4573","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=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}