The Girl with a Clock for a Heart - Softcover

Swanson, Peter

3.34

16,838 ratings by Goodreads

9780571301904: The Girl with a Clock for a Heart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571301908 ISBN 13: 9780571301904

Publisher: FABER & FABER, 2014

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An atmospheric tale of romantic noir with shades of Hitchcock about a man who is swept into a vortex of irresistible passion and murder when an old love mysteriously reappears. George Foss, a forty-year-old employee of a Boston literary magazine, has passed the age when he thinks he might fall madly in love or take the world by storm, or have anything truly remarkable happen to him. He spends most of his evenings at his local tavern talking about the Red Sox and the minutiae of everyday life, and obsessing over a lost love from his college days who vanished twenty years earlier. Until she reappears. George has both dreamed of and dreaded seeing Liana Decter again. She isn't just an ex-girlfriend or the first love George could never forget. She's also an enigma and quite possibly someone who was involved in a murder years ago, a woman whose transgressions are more in line with Greek tragedy than youthful indiscretion. But suddenly, she's backand she needs his help. She says that some men are after her and that they believe she's stolen money from them. And now they will do whatever it takes to get it back. George knows Liana is trouble. But he can't say nohe never couldand soon his quiet life is gone as he is pulled into a terrifying whirlpool of lies, betrayal, and murder from which there is no sure escape. Bold and masterful, full of malevolent foreboding and subtle surprises, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is an addictive, nonstop reading experiencean ever-tightening coil of suspense that will hold you in its grip right up to its electrifying end.

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The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride and an absolute blast from start to finish. (DENNIS LEHANE)

As good as they come. A thrilling slice of contemporary noir with twists that you won't see coming. (MARK BILLINGHAM)

An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller that dares you to turn the next page, but it's much more dangerous than that. It dares you to take a hard, long look at people from your past and ask yourself who's worth holding on to and who's worth letting go. (WILEY CASH, author of A Land More Kind Than Home (winner of the John Creasey debut Dagger, 2012))

From the Author:

Peter Swansons poems, stories and reviews have appeared in such journals as The Atlantic, Asimovs Science Fiction, Epoch, Measure, Notre Dame Review, Slant Magazine, Soundings East, Rattapallax, and The Vocabula Review. He has won awards in poetry from The Lyric and Yankee Magazine, and is currently completing a sonnet sequence on all 53 of Alfred Hitchcocks films. He has earned degrees in Creative Writing, Education, and Literature from Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College. His debut novel, The Girl With a Clock for a Heart, is published by William Morrow. He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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