{"id":5126,"date":"2026-03-19T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5126"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:30:09","slug":"do-you-see-what-i-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5126","title":{"rendered":"Do You See What I See?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a holiday-themed novella as brilliantly told as it is fully terrifying, with an energy akin to Swanson\u2019s earlier holiday novella, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2822\"><strong><em>The Christmas Guest<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span> (2023). Nicholas Child\u2019s career is on the rocks; for starters, his publisher dropped him and he hasn\u2019t succeeded in signing with anyone new. Meanwhile, super-popular novelist Marco Tavares is unable to get past a classic case of writer\u2019s block to finish his sophomore effort. While the two authors barely know each other, they do share the same agent, who makes the unorthodox suggestion that Nicholas join Marco for the holidays at Marco\u2019s Cape Cod mansion. This would, presumably, give Nicholas a chance to dig into Marco&#8217;s manuscript and begin to complete the missing pages and for Marco to, well, drink. Miraculously, both writers agree. More surprising are the other residents: Marco\u2019s ex-girlfriend and her jealous husband, the silent grandmother, Marco\u2019s oddball friend, and James Beers, who is convinced that Marco\u2019s novel is based on one of his own. Nearly each of them believes that one of the other guests has a motive to kill Marco. And, in fact, before you know it, the corpses begin to arrive.<strong> Sophisticated and unnerving.<\/strong><em>\u2014Brian Kenney<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a holiday-themed novella as brilliantly told as it is fully terrifying, with an energy akin to Swanson\u2019s earlier holiday novella, The Christmas Guest (2023). Nicholas Child\u2019s career is on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[61,85,59,55,52,50,51],"class_list":["post-5126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-amateur-sleuth","tag-holidays","tag-literary","tag-mystery-detective","tag-psychological","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/See-400x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/See-400x600.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\/5126","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=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}