{"id":23103,"date":"2025-07-30T08:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23103"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:11:04","slug":"book-36-of-52-famous-last-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/book-36-of-52-famous-last-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 37 (of 52) &#8211; Famous Last Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23104\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/famouslastwords.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23104\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23104\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/famouslastwords.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/famouslastwords.jpg 424w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/famouslastwords-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Famous Last Words &#8211; Gillian McAllister<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seven years after a hostage crisis goes bad, two lives, the hostage taker&#8217;s wife and the hostage negotiator, remain stuck.\u00a0 Both trying to move on, but stuck in the past and on the spouse each lost that day.\u00a0 When the case becomes active once again, the negotiator finds clues that were hidden from him years earlier, finding that the events of that day were not quite what they seemed.<\/p>\n<p>Gillian McAllister returns with her latest, <em>Famous Last Words<\/em>.\u00a0 Here she wraps two love stories in mystery, showing how a single event can break apart the lives of those involved in different yet similar ways.\u00a0 Given my enjoyment of her most recent works, I keep threatening to dive into her back catalog and this time I might actually do it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven years after a hostage crisis goes bad, two lives, the hostage taker&#8217;s wife and the hostage negotiator, remain stuck.\u00a0 Both trying to move on, but stuck in the past and on the spouse each lost that day.\u00a0 When the case becomes active once again, the negotiator finds clues that were hidden from him years [&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":[12096,10392],"class_list":["post-23103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-famous-last-words","tag-gillian-mcallister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23118,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23103\/revisions\/23118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}