{"id":23203,"date":"2025-08-26T06:05:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23203"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:18:19","slug":"book-42-of-52-by-a-spiders-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/book-42-of-52-by-a-spiders-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 42 (of 52) &#8211; By A Spider&#8217;s Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23204\" style=\"width: 311px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/spidersthread.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23204\" class=\"wp-image-23204 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/spidersthread.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/spidersthread.jpg 301w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/spidersthread-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">By A Spider&#8217;s Thread &#8211; Laura Lippman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When a man&#8217;s wife and children go missing, he hires Tess Monaghan to find them and bring them home.\u00a0 As she digs into his, and her, background, she finds that the wife he claims to know may not be who he thinks she is.\u00a0 Can Tess track down the missing family, and the mysterious man accompanying them, before any more blood is shed?<\/p>\n<p>Laura Lippman returns with <em>By a Spider\u2019s Thread<\/em>, the eighth entry in her Tess Monaghan series.\u00a0 Following the events of <em>The Last Place<\/em>, Tess once again finds herself single, though I assume that will be taken care of sooner rather than later.\u00a0 She also finds herself facing her Jewish half more seriously than she has in the past, due to her Orthodox client.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got four more Tess novels to go, not to mention any other works in Lippman\u2019s oeuvre, so there\u2019s plenty for me to enjoy moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a man&#8217;s wife and children go missing, he hires Tess Monaghan to find them and bring them home.\u00a0 As she digs into his, and her, background, she finds that the wife he claims to know may not be who he thinks she is.\u00a0 Can Tess track down the missing family, and the mysterious man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[12127,8023,11964],"class_list":["post-23203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-by-a-spiders-thread","tag-laura-lippman","tag-the-last-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23479,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23203\/revisions\/23479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}