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# The Girl with a Clock for a Heart ★★★★☆
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- Published: 2025-09-29T03:17:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-08T18:47:52.000Z
- Author: PM
- Tags: Books

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.  
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> 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.  
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> 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.  
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> 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.

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