{"id":5201,"date":"2026-04-17T16:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T14:11:06","slug":"cross-my-heart-i-hope-you-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5201","title":{"rendered":"Cross My Heart, I Hope You Die"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is not to like about this rollicking, trope-riven (and I mean that in a good way!) revenge-mystery thriller? Jason, the three-timing guy who strings Cham, Nora, and Ruby along with good looks, great sex, and loose promises, is about to find out about a woman scorned. Add a spooky camp in a remote area outside of Big Sky, Montana; a cult history associated with one of the gals; and a donated organ (I kid you not), and you have my attention. As the women grow closer and more resolute that they just want to scare Jason, weird things begin to happen at the cabin to which they have lured the cheater and his new catch, Thalia, for a romantic weekend. When the ladies arrive, they find buckets of blood that may have been the first clue that this place had seen horrors in the past. The trio push through, however, with their observations shared with the reader in chapters told from each woman’s point of view, as well as excerpted police transcripts and diary entries. This is as much a sharp, funny feminist manifesto as it is a chilling payback story about the power in women’s ability to dictate their own future. A good dose of slasher, a hit of supernatural, and a lot about getting even, this atmospheric adventure has all the feels.<\/strong>\u2014Dodie Ownes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is not to like about this rollicking, trope-riven (and I mean that in a good way!) revenge-mystery thriller? Jason, the three-timing guy who strings Cham, Nora, and Ruby along…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[113,93,75,52,50,51],"class_list":["post-5201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-feminist","tag-friendship","tag-horror","tag-psychological","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Cross-1-400x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Cross-1.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Dodie Ownes","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=15"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}