The Girl with a Clock for a Heart ★★★★☆

Definitely a page-turner and gets darker, in typical Peter Swanson fashion. The characters are morally ambiguous, but that's what makes it for a good story.

• Format: 304 pages
• Published on: February 4, 2014 by William Morrow
• ISBN: 9780062267511 (ISBN10: 0062267515)
• ASIN: B00DB39ZZE
• LanguageEnglish

On an ordinary Friday evening at his favorite Boston tavern, George Foss’s comfortable, predictable life is shattered when a beautiful woman sits down at the bar, a woman who vanished without a trace twenty years ago.

Liana Dector isn’t just an ex-girlfriend, the first love George couldn’t quite forget. She’s also a dangerous enigma and quite possibly a cold-blooded killer wanted by the police. Suddenly, she’s back—and she needs George’s help. Ruthless men believe she stole some money . . . and they will do whatever it takes to get it back.

George knows Liana is trouble. But he can’t say no—he never could—so he makes a choice that will plunge him into a terrifying whirlpool of lies, secrets, betrayal, and murder from which there is no sure escape.

Bold and masterful, full of malicious foreboding and subtle surprises, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is an addictive, nonstop thriller—an ever-tightening coil of suspense that grips you right up to its electrifying end.