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Already optioned for film The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is Peter Swanson’s electrifying tale of romantic noir with shades of Hitchcock and reminiscent of the classic movie Body Heat. It is the story of a man swept into a vortex of irresistible passion and murder when an old love mysteriously reappears.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.