The Girl with a Clock for a Heart - Tapa dura

"What do you say when a woman who broke your heart years ago and is wanted for questioning in connection to a murder pops back into your life to ask a favor? If she's as alluring as Liana Dector, you say, 'Yes.' And hope you survive . . . "The Girl with a Clock for a Heart" is a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride."--Dennis Lehane, "New York Times" bestselling author

"An edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller that dares you to turn the next page . . . This novel burns faster and hotter than a lit fuse, and you'll be feeling its heat long after the explosive ending."--Wiley Cash, "New York Times" bestselling author of "A Land More Kind Than Home"

"[A] roller coaster thrill-fest of a ride, filled with deliciously wicked moments of mystery, murder, and mayhem, double-cross and deception. A cerebral noir thriller debut."--New York Journal of Books

"In "The Girl with a Clock for a Heart" a long-lost lover resurfaces, with chaos in her wake. A must read!"--Harper's Bazaar

"The pace is fast . . . and the plot genuinely twisty . . . [It is] seemingly pre-measured for the movies . . . often to good effect; all in all, a quick, deft, promising first crime novel."--Kirkus Reviews

"Swanson gives readers an adrenaline rush through all the hairpin turns."--Publishers Weekly

"The labyrinthine plot here has a grip of high-tensile steel."--Financial Times (UK)

"The parallel stories unwind relentlessly with audacious and spectacular twists . . . An intense mix of noir, pulp fiction, and fun . . . The most unsurprising aspect of this book? It's already been optioned for a film."--Boston Globe

"Who are literature's most lethal women? . . . Here's a new contender: Liana Decter, who causes endless heartbreak and occasional death in Peter Swanson's compulsively readable ["The Girl with a Clock for a Heart"] . . . should be a contender for crime fiction's best first novel of 2014."--Washington Post

"The book has pace to burn. It feels like a throwback to Ross MacDonald's flawed but relentless work . . . glimmers with bright and original moments."--USA Today