{"id":30629,"date":"2022-10-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30629"},"modified":"2022-10-09T08:15:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T12:15:35","slug":"the-girl-with-a-clock-for-a-heart-by-peter-swanson-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30629","title":{"rendered":"THE GIRL WITH A CLOCK FOR A HEART by Peter Swanson \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z100922zview_girlclockheart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"387\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3RgYcjE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Girl with a Clock for a Heart<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peter-swanson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Swanson<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was dusk, but as he turned onto the rutted driveway he could make out the perimeter of yellow tape that still circled the property.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">George Foss is having a drink in his favorite tavern with his on-again off-again girlfriend when he sees a beautiful woman seated at the bar.\u00a0 The woman looks like an older version of George&#8217;s first love from his freshman year in college twenty years ago. The first love who suddenly disappeared without a trace.\u00a0 The first love who may have been a murderer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It turns out that the woman is truly George&#8217;s first love, Liana Dector.\u00a0 Liana says she&#8217;s back because she needs a favor. Liana stole money, a lot of money, from a rich man. The man hired some terrible people to get it back and to teach her a lesson.\u00a0 Liana wants George to return the cash she has left and ask the man to call off the dogs.\u00a0 Despite everything, including that Liana could be a cold blooded murderer, George feels compelled to help her.\u00a0 Maybe he&#8217;ll learn why she left all those years ago, if she truly loved him&#8230; and if she still does.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">George&#8217;s decision to help Liana, puts him in way over his head.\u00a0 Some very bad people now have their sights on George and the police want him for questioning in a murder.\u00a0 Did Liana set him up or are they both victims?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Peter Swanson has created a roller-coaster ride in the tradition of <em>Double Indemnity<\/em> or <em>Body Heat<\/em>.\u00a0 Swanson has created a page-turner that should satisfy both the mystery lover and noir fan.\u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3RgYcjE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Girl with a Clock for a Heart<\/a> <\/span> easily earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3SBgoFO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Girl with a Clock for a Heart<\/a> Hardcover<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3RgYcjE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Girl with a Clock for a Heart<\/a>\u00a0Paperback<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3SzD2hX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Girl with a Clock for a Heart<\/a> Kindle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson First sentence&#8230; It was dusk, but as he turned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30629"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30722,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30629\/revisions\/30722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}