{"id":5838,"date":"2026-10-15T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:22:11","slug":"the-midsummer-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5838","title":{"rendered":"The Midsummer Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This book has so many twists and turns that it may not be possible to define. Allissa has been searching for her sister, Shannon, since her disappearance 12 years ago. The disappearance upended their family, shattering what had been a happy life. An unexpected message from a supposed friend of Shannon\u2019s sets Alissa on a path that may lead to destruction and that involves a rich man, simple na\u00efve young women, and a mysterious remote island somewhere near Gurnsey. The island, it seems, has spiritual control of those who come. Who is trustworthy, who is real? What has happened for all these years? <strong>Not an easy book, but starkly compelling to read.<\/strong><em>\u2014Danise Hoover<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book has so many twists and turns that it may not be possible to define. Allissa has been searching for her sister, Shannon, since her disappearance 12 years ago.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[52,50,51,53],"class_list":["post-5838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article-article","category-review","tag-psychological","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers","tag-women"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/MSG-400x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/MSG-400x600.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Danise Hoover","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=12"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5880,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions\/5880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}