{"id":2221,"date":"2015-12-01T12:09:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2015-12-01T12:09:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:09:04","slug":"a-dickens-of-a-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2221","title":{"rendered":"A Dickens of a Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Saturday, December 19th, 2:00-4:00 p.m.<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Diane L. Twilley<\/strong> joins us again with her 5th novel in a series set mainly in and around the Galveston\/Houston area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dickens-of-a-miracle-cover-340w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dickens-of-a-miracle-cover-340w.jpg\" alt=\"dickens-of-a-miracle-cover-340w\" width=\"340\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignleft size-full bordered wp-image-2217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dickens-of-a-miracle-cover-340w.jpg 340w, http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dickens-of-a-miracle-cover-340w-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Charismatic attorney and native Galvestonian, Jack Tierney, has mysteriously disappeared, leaving his pregnant wife, Gina, distraught. Did Jack leave on his own, or has he been in an accident, or worse, kidnapped? In a panic, Gina enlists the help of police detective Stephanie Smith, a family friend and the fianc\u00e9e of the popular Houston Texans football player, Shawn McCormick. Questions torment the family: Who would kidnap Jack, and why? Jack\u2019s older brother, Galveston police captain Richard Tierney, goes into overdrive to find him, but will it be in time? At one point in the investigation, suspicion falls on Shawn McCormick and his mother Janet, who at one time was mentally unstable. This leaves Lieutenant Smith in a quandary\u2026 how well does she really know her fianc\u00e9 and his family? Gina\u2019s aunt, Sister Catherine Malloy, herself a highly praised amateur sleuth, eventually admits that finding Jack will be nothing short of a miracle, but as it turns out, the miracle is not exactly what they expect it to be. Nevertheless, in the end there really is one Dickens of a miracle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, December 19th, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Diane L. Twilley joins us again with her 5th novel in a series set mainly in and around the Galveston\/Houston area. Charismatic attorney and native Galvestonian, Jack Tierney, has mysteriously disappeared, leaving his pregnant wife, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2221\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Dickens of a Miracle<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}