THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICESHORTLISTED FOR THE IAN FLEMING SILVER DAGGER, 2015
'Extremely hard to put down!' SOPHIE HANNAH
'Chilling and hypnotically suspenseful ... an instant classic.' LEE CHILD'Hello there.'
I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to me in the business class lounge of Heathrow airport, then up into the stranger's face. 'Do I know you?'
Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched - but are either of them being serious, could they actually go through with it and, if they did, what would be their chances of getting away with it?
Back in Boston, Ted's wife Miranda is busy site managing the construction of their dream home, a beautiful house out on the Maine coastline. But what secrets is she carrying and to what lengths might she go to protect the vision she has of her deserved future?
A sublimely plotted novel of trust and betrayal, The Kind Worth Killing will keep you gripped and guessing late into the night.
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Review
''A twisty tale of warring sociopaths…a good companion to similar stories by Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn.'' -- Booklist
''Revenge has rarely been served colder than in Swanson's exceptional thriller…With scalpel-sharp prose, Swanson probes the nature of coldblooded evil. Few will be prepared for the crushing climax.'' -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
''The next Gone Girl?…There aren't just two unreliable narrators, there are four. There isn't just one enormous, game-changing twist. Try three…You'll also lose count of all the sociopaths…they're each deranged but oh so compelling.'' -- *Entertainment Weekly <?i>
''Filled with double-timers and double-crossers, cold-eyed stalkers and cold-blooded murderers, The Kind Worth Killing paints a riveting, disturbing picture of marriage gone horribly awry, with no shortage of startling surprises. If you're engaged to get married, by all means read something else.'' --Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats
''Gripping, elegantly and stylishly written, and extremely hard to put down!'' --Sophie Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders
''A work of lovely violence and graceful malevolence, The Kind Worth Killing slips into your life like a stiletto in the ribs. This is a book that launches Peter Swanson straight into the ranks of the killer elite, alongside Tana French [and] Gillian Flynn. He's the real deal.'' --Joe Hill
'' The Kind Worth Killing is not your ordinary murder mystery; it is an extraordinarily well-written tale of deceit and revenge told by a very gifted writer. Peter Swanson takes us on a harrowing journey through the hearts and minds of a cast of characters who seem normal on the outside but are deliciously abnormal on the inside. The twists are not just in the plot; they are also in the heads of the plotters.'' --Nelson DeMille
''Chilling and hypnotically suspenseful…Could be an instant classic.'' --Lee Child
From the Back Cover
On a flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning Lily Kintner. Over martinis, the strangers play a game in which they reveal intimate details about themselves. Ted talks about his wife, Miranda—how their marriage has gone stale, how a week ago he caught her in a stunning betrayal. But what begins as playful banter between Ted and Lily takes a swift turn when Ted claims, half-seriously, that he would like to kill his wife. Then Lily surprises him by saying that she’d like to help.
Back in Boston, Ted and Lily forge an unusual bond and talk about the ways Ted can get out of his marriage. But Lily has her own dark history she’s not sharing with Ted. And Ted is keeping something from Lily, too. But as Ted begins to fall in love with Lily, he grows anxious about any holes in their scheme that could give them away. And suddenly the two are pulled into a very lethal game of cat and mouse, one in which both are not likely to survive when all is said and done.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICE SHORTLISTED FOR THE IAN FLEMING SILVER DAGGER, 2015 'Extremely hard to put down!' SOPHIE HANNAH 'Chilling and hypnotically suspenseful ... an instant classic.' LEE CHILD 'Hello there.'
I looked at the pale, freckled hand on the back of the empty bar seat next to me in the business class lounge of Heathrow airport, then up into the stranger's face.
'Do I know you?' Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched - but are either of them being serious, could they actually go through with it and, if they did, what would be their chances of getting away with it? Back in Boston, Ted's wife Miranda is busy site managing the construction of their dream home, a beautiful house out on the Maine coastline. But what secrets is she carrying and to what lengths might she go to protect the vision she has of her deserved future? A sublimely plotted novel of trust and betrayal, The Kind Worth Killing will keep you gripped and guessing late into the night. **
Review
''A twisty tale of warring sociopaths…a good companion to similar stories by Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn.'' -- Booklist
''Revenge has rarely been served colder than in Swanson's exceptional thriller…With scalpel-sharp prose, Swanson probes the nature of coldblooded evil. Few will be prepared for the crushing climax.'' -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
''The next Gone Girl?…There aren't just two unreliable narrators, there are four. There isn't just one enormous, game-changing twist. Try three…You'll also lose count of all the sociopaths…they're each deranged but oh so compelling.'' -- *Entertainment Weekly <?i>
''Filled with double-timers and double-crossers, cold-eyed stalkers and cold-blooded murderers, The Kind Worth Killing paints a riveting, disturbing picture of marriage gone horribly awry, with no shortage of startling surprises. If you're engaged to get married, by all means read something else.'' --Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats
''Gripping, elegantly and stylishly written, and extremely hard to put down!'' --Sophie Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Monogram Murders
''A work of lovely violence and graceful malevolence, The Kind Worth Killing slips into your life like a stiletto in the ribs. This is a book that launches Peter Swanson straight into the ranks of the killer elite, alongside Tana French [and] Gillian Flynn. He's the real deal.'' --Joe Hill
'' The Kind Worth Killing is not your ordinary murder mystery; it is an extraordinarily well-written tale of deceit and revenge told by a very gifted writer. Peter Swanson takes us on a harrowing journey through the hearts and minds of a cast of characters who seem normal on the outside but are deliciously abnormal on the inside. The twists are not just in the plot; they are also in the heads of the plotters.'' --Nelson DeMille
''Chilling and hypnotically suspenseful…Could be an instant classic.'' --Lee Child
From the Back Cover
On a flight from London to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning Lily Kintner. Over martinis, the strangers play a game in which they reveal intimate details about themselves. Ted talks about his wife, Miranda—how their marriage has gone stale, how a week ago he caught her in a stunning betrayal. But what begins as playful banter between Ted and Lily takes a swift turn when Ted claims, half-seriously, that he would like to kill his wife. Then Lily surprises him by saying that she’d like to help. Back in Boston, Ted and Lily forge an unusual bond and talk about the ways Ted can get out of his marriage. But Lily has her own dark history she’s not sharing with Ted. And Ted is keeping something from Lily, too. But as Ted begins to fall in love with Lily, he grows anxious about any holes in their scheme that could give them away. And suddenly the two are pulled into a very lethal game of cat and mouse, one in which both are not likely to survive when all is said and done. *