{"id":23347,"date":"2025-10-11T03:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23347"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T15:05:11","slug":"book-50-of-52-the-locked-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/book-50-of-52-the-locked-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 50 (of 52) &#8211; The Locked Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23348\" style=\"width: 339px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lockedward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23348\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23348\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lockedward.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"329\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lockedward.jpg 329w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lockedward-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 329px) 100vw, 329px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Locked Ward &#8211; Sarah Pekkanen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mandy, who took over the family bar after her parents\u2019 deaths, has her world turned upside down when she finds out that 1) she has a twin sister named Georgia and 2) Georgia is locked in a psychiatric ward accused of murder.\u00a0 Believing her newfound family is innocent, Mandy digs into Georgia&#8217;s life, looking for anything that might prove her innocence.\u00a0 The closer she gets, however, the more her own life is in danger, leading to a final gambit that she hopes will save her sister&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Pekkanen returns with her latest solo effort,\u00a0<em>The Locked Ward<\/em>, her third straight outing without longtime collaborator Greer Hendricks.\u00a0 She tells an intriguing tale with an unnecessary twist at the very end.\u00a0 Despite that, this was another enjoyable read from her and I look forward to what she comes up with next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandy, who took over the family bar after her parents\u2019 deaths, has her world turned upside down when she finds out that 1) she has a twin sister named Georgia and 2) Georgia is locked in a psychiatric ward accused of murder.\u00a0 Believing her newfound family is innocent, Mandy digs into Georgia&#8217;s life, looking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8918,8919,12151],"class_list":["post-23347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-greer-hendricks","tag-sarah-pekkanen","tag-the-locked-ward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23349,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23347\/revisions\/23349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}