{"id":5897,"date":"2026-10-22T01:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T01:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5897"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:27:14","slug":"gideons-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=5897","title":{"rendered":"Gideon&#8217;s Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detective Chief Inspector Conny Sj\u00f6berg and the Hammarby police squad have been pushed to the limit before, but the case before them could be the breaking point. What is the connection among an abused naked woman, a dead infant, and what appears to be a murder in a quiet suburb of Stockholm? Working amid a disturbing secret that involves influential men in the community, Sj\u00f6berg must find out why the young woman, Veronica, ran to the home of John Gideon, a local piano tuner, after she was assaulted\u2014but Gideon&#8217;s not answering the door. Neighbors tell the police there are always young women coming and going from Gideon&#8217;s home, raising suspicions and theories. Gerhardsen expertly weaves into the story the complicated personal traumas of the squad&#8217;s members, adding layers to this Scandi-noir psychological thriller. <strong><em>Gideon&#8217;s Ring<\/em> combines the best of police procedural with taut suspense, keeping readers rooted in the emotional aspects of these crimes as the Hammarby police tighten the noose on the bad guys\u2014and they are <em>really<\/em> bad.<\/strong> Though fifth in the Hammarby Mysteries series, this title reads as a stand-alone, but readers may find themselves wanting to go back to where it all began with Gerhardsen&#8217;s 2012 (translated from Swedish) <em>The Gingerbread House.\u2014Dodie Ownes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detective Chief Inspector Conny Sj\u00f6berg and the Hammarby police squad have been pushed to the limit before, but the case before them could be the breaking point. What is the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[68,64,55,65],"class_list":["post-5897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-hard-boiled","tag-international","tag-mystery-detective","tag-police-procedural"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Ring-400x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Ring.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\/5897","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=5897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5912,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5897\/revisions\/5912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}