{"id":4589,"date":"2025-09-04T19:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2025-09-04T20:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:09:37","slug":"the-quiet-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4589","title":{"rendered":"The Quiet Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lies, guilt, and betrayal are the engines that drive Indridason\u2019s powerful third and most recent of the Konrad novels to be published in English. Retired police detective Konrad hears of the brutal murder of Valborg, an older woman who lives a simple life in her Reykjavik apartment. She leaves behind little, except for a note with Konrad\u2019s phone number. It turns out that Konrad was contacted by Valborg several times\u2014they even met for coffee\u2014as Valborg tried to convince the detective to take on her case: she wanted him to find a child that she had given up almost 50 years before. Konrad repeatedly turned down her request, fearing that there wasn\u2019t enough information to complete her search. But once Valborg is murdered, guilt consumes Konrad, and he decides to delve into the past to understand the present. Dark and haunting, Konrad\u2019s search unearths the sad and sordid history of his own family, a history he has striven to repress.<strong> A fast-moving Nordic noir that will appeal to fans of police narratives, family histories, and Iceland\u2019s past.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lies, guilt, and betrayal are the engines that drive Indridason\u2019s powerful third and most recent of the Konrad novels to be published in English. Retired police detective Konrad hears of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[54,64,55,65,51],"class_list":["post-4589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-historical","tag-international","tag-mystery-detective","tag-police-procedural","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Mother-395x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Mother.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\/4589","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=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}