{"id":5544,"date":"2026-08-06T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T14:29:29","slug":"five-things-i-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5544","title":{"rendered":"Five Things I See"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know when you\u2019re reading something and hope there will be more of this and then realize IT\u2019S A SERIES! That was my thrilled experience when I left Grace Hartwell\u2019s Jacksonville-cop world and came up for air. What a gripping and satisfying read. Grace is a homicide detective who keeps to herself, relying on her smarts and independence to be the best there is. Here she\u2019s faced with two cases, one of which may not even be a murder\u2014a building inspector has been found dead at the bottom of an under-construction building. There\u2019s an empty bottle of whiskey by his side, so maybe this will be an open-and-shut accident. But nothing can be simple for Grace. Then there\u2019s the much bigger deal of a couple who are found tortured and dead in their home. The husband turns out to have been quite the ladies man, so maybe a jilted lover did it? But when more victims are found, there may be a serial killer\u2014oops, a pattern killer, as she\u2019s been instructed to call them (less media frenzy). A real job is portrayed here with more than one responsibility and workplace politics to boot, and working both cases takes Grace and readers on a breakneck and emotional ride through terrifying danger and the excitement of a tough puzzle and chase. Get this on your TBR now.<\/strong>\u2014Henrietta Thornton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know when you\u2019re reading something and hope there will be more of this and then realize IT\u2019S A SERIES! That was my thrilled experience when I left Grace Hartwell\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[68,55,65,51],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-hard-boiled","tag-mystery-detective","tag-police-procedural","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/FIVE-400x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/FIVE-400x600.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\/5544","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=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5550,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions\/5550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}