{"id":4874,"date":"2026-01-15T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:17:44","slug":"mr-and-mrs-dixon-hide-a-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4874","title":{"rendered":"Mr. and Mrs. Dixon Hide a Body"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book of the Week January 15, 2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dreadful yet droll, disturbing but also delightful, this is the tale of one couple so eager to escape from their hopeless marriage that each is secretly planning to \u201coff\u201d the other in the next few days.<\/strong> Daisy is a seamstress and designer who creates her own bizarre clothes using used frocks, castoffs from other residents, while abusive husband James convinces townies to invest in his sleazy cryptocurrency business.\u00a0 Living in a deteriorating mansion that is as rundown as their relationship, each has a plan to get rid of. Just when they\u2019re\u00a0 driving home from a party, with ideas for how to murder each other dancing in their heads, Daisy hits a man. She had wanted James to drive as she felt too tipsy. While most people might call the cops, Daisy and James take an alternate route and drag the dying man home so as not to attract attention. His demise comes rapidly, leaving the couple stuck with the age-old dilemma: what to do with a corpse in your house. Then it occurs to Daisy to haul the corpse off to the family mausoleum, as one does, located in the nether reaches of their estate. All goes well until weeks later a huge storm initiates a flood that washes out the village, exposing decades of James\u2019 family members. Gruesome, yes. But don\u2019t you want to know who got to prison first?\u2014Brian Kenney-<\/p>\n

Add Pub Date to my Calendar<\/h5>\n

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