{"id":1012,"date":"2019-09-19T08:50:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2019-09-19T08:50:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:50:49","slug":"bleeding-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Bleeding Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>What happens when a killer becomes the target&#8230;?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A shot rings out and a woman dies instantly.\u00a0<span style=\"color:var(--color-text);\">The death of a journalist from a single bullet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But she was not alone on the steps of the London hotel. A number of other people could also have been the intended target of the invisible sniper.<\/p>\n<p>The man who fired the gun, Michael Weston, knows he has carried out his assignment successfully. What he doesn&#8217;t know is\u00a0<span style=\"color:var(--color-text);\">why the police had arrived on the scene so quickly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The assassin had made one mistake in the past. A long time ago, when a young girl had accidentally received the fatal bullet. And that lead to her father hiring a PI named Hoffer to track him down.<\/p>\n<p>But this was no mistake. Now\u00a0Weston has to find out who really hired him and why&#8230;..even if it means coming face to face with his nemesis Hoffer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Z1btqA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1011\" style=\"background-color:initial;text-align:center;color:var(--color-text);\" src=\"https:\/\/solvethemurder.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/img_1812-e1561994808472.jpg\" alt=\"Bleeding Hearts - photo by Juliamaud\" width=\"2736\" height=\"3651\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bleeding Hearts &#8211; photo by Juliamaud<\/p>\n<p><strong>A great read by Ian Rankin. This book has lots of twists that keeps you guessing right to the end.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Available from <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/lists\/as-seen-on-the-solve-the-murder-blog\">https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/lists\/as-seen-on-the-solve-the-murder-blog<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Z1btqA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B002U3CBE8\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B002U3CBE8&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21&amp;linkId=47a327ce57bae092c23242832ddc1421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;ASIN=B002U3CBE8&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0!important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=invittoevent-21&amp;l=am2&amp;o=2&amp;a=B002U3CBE8\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when a killer becomes the target&#8230;?\u00a0 A shot rings out and a woman dies instantly.\u00a0The death of a journalist from a single bullet. But she was not alone on the steps of the London hotel. A number of other people could also have been the intended target of the invisible sniper. The man&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1012\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bleeding Hearts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,225],"tags":[258,259,260],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-murder-mystery-books","category-mystery-books","tag-bleeding-hearts","tag-ian-rankin","tag-michael-weston"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bleeding Hearts - Solve The Murder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1012\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bleeding Hearts - Solve The Murder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What happens when a killer becomes the target&#8230;?\u00a0 A shot rings out and a woman dies instantly.\u00a0The death of a journalist from a single bullet. 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