{"id":2740,"date":"2024-08-16T12:32:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T16:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2024-08-05T20:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T00:34:41","slug":"book-review-when-cicadas-cry-by-caroline-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/?p=2740","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REVIEW: WHEN CICADAS CRY BY CAROLINE CLEVELAND"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Cicadas Cry<\/em>\u00a0by Caroline Cleveland<\/p>\n

Union Square & Co, 2024<\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-4549-5231-2<\/p>\n

ISBN 978-1-4549-5232-9\u00a0 (e-book)<\/p>\n

Available: Paperback, Kindle edition<\/p>\n

Buy:\u00a0\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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When Cicadas Cry<\/em>\u00a0by Caroline Cleveland is an engaging murder mystery.<\/p>\n

A beautiful, young, white woman is bludgeoned to death in rural South Carolina church. A young black accountant, covered in blood, crouches over her. In the eyes of the prosecutor and most of the whites in the town, the young man\u2019s guilt is clear. A disgraced lawyer reluctantly agrees to defend the young man in what seems like a lost cause. But he must also deal with ra town torn by racial tensions.<\/p>\n

Thirty-four years earlier, two teenage girls were murdered in the same town. Their case was never solved. As a novel approach, the author weaves the first-person voice of the true killer into the plot. The reader is challenged to identify the killer among the novel\u2019s many characters.<\/p>\n

The author, being a practicing lawyer, weaves interesting insights about lawyerly thinking and courtroom procedures into her story. The novel\u2019s style and plot twists will remind readers of mysteries by other lawyer-novelists, such as John Grisham.<\/p>\n

Recommended: young adults<\/p>\n

Contains: gore, mild sex<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Robert D. Yee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

**Crossposted from the Circulation Desk**   When Cicadas Cry\u00a0by Caroline Cleveland Union Square & Co, 2024 ISBN 978-1-4549-5231-2 ISBN 978-1-4549-5232-9\u00a0 (e-book) Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Buy:\u00a0\u00a0Amazon.com\u00a0|\u00a0Bookshop.org   When Cicadas Cry\u00a0by Caroline Cleveland is an engaging murder mystery. A beautiful, young, white woman is bludgeoned to death in rural South Carolina church. A young black accountant, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,139,20],"tags":[486],"class_list":["post-2740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-thriller","category-ya-books","tag-caroline-cleveland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Eu9f-Ic","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2740\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/ReadingBites\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}