{"id":38,"date":"2015-09-02T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.britnipatterson.com\/?post_type=books&#038;p=38"},"modified":"2016-04-20T03:33:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T03:33:43","slug":"a-thousand-deadly-kisses","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/www.britnipatterson.com\/?books=a-thousand-deadly-kisses","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Deadly Kisses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercy Givens, feisty genius behind the Givens Detective Agency, is determined to win the San Antonio Chili Chompers Cook-Off Competition, so she can stick it to Marlene Givenchy, reigning Chili Chomper Queen and world-class local diva. Justice, Mercy\u2019s long-suffering twin sister and agency partner, has humbler goals: to get through the competition without strangling one or both of the competitors!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When a Cook-Off judge, who also happens to be Marlene\u2019s lover, dies after sampling her chili, Marlene and Mercy take center stage as suspects number one and two. Marlene hires the twins to find out who poisoned her chili, but it\u2019s not long before she\u2019s arrested for the crime. Mercy, frankly, isn\u2019t sure whether Marlene is innocent or guilty. But it soon becomes apparent that the twins have taken over first place on the murderer\u2019s To-Do list!<\/p>\n<p>Justice and Mercy pull out all the stops to do what they do best \u2013 find the truth, dodge bullets, and catch a killer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercy Givens, feisty genius behind the Givens Detective Agency, is determined to win the San Antonio Chili Chompers Cook-Off Competition, so she can stick it to Marlene Givenchy, reigning Chili Chomper Queen and world-class local diva. Justice, Mercy\u2019s long-suffering twin sister and agency partner, has humbler goals: to get through the competition without strangling one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book-authors":[],"book-series":[7],"book-tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","book-series-justice","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britnipatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/books\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britnipatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britnipatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britnipatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britnipatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britnipatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book-authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britnipatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-authors&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"book-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britnipatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-series&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"book-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britnipatterson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fbook-tags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}