**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** From the Sunday Times bestselling author TWO''S COMPANY, THREE''S MURDER ''I loved it!'' GILLIAN McALLISTER ''Nobody writes psychopaths like Swanson.'' MARK EDWARDS When private detective and former cop Henry Kimball is hired to investigate a cheating husband, he senses all is not quite what it seems, and before he knows it he''s gotten far too close to the other woman.
As the case rapidly gets ever more dangerous, he''s forced to turn to the only person he can trust, the sociopathic Lily Kintner, the woman who once stabbed him, but with whom he shares a peculiar bond.
''Swanson has made me fall in love with plot twists again.'' DOUG JOHNSTONE Readers are gripped by The Kind Worth Saving ***** ''Definitely one of the best books of the year!'' ***** ''Wickedly delicious!'' ***** ''A thrilling, gripping book that will keep you on the edge of your seat.'' ***** ''Fantastically twisty'' ***** ''Wow, this was a nonstop whirlwind!'' ***** ''Oh my goodness I couldn''t put it down''
''Delicious . . . The twist will make you rethink everything.'' New York Times Book Review
''Funny, clever and gripping ... with twists that will blow you away.'' Irish Independent
When Ashley Smith - a bright-eyed but lonely American studying in London - is invited to spend Christmas with her classmate''s family at their Cotswolds manor house, it seems like a perfect country idyll.
And for Ashley - who records it all in her diary - there''s the added romantic potential of her friend''s twin brother, Adam, who she thinks could be her wildest dream come true.
But is there something strange about the old house, both stately and rundown? What could the motives of the mysterious Chapman family be? And what holiday horrors might be lying in wait?
''Perfect. . . I was not prepared for the shocking revelation.'' 5* reader review
''All the Christmas cheer & nostalgia wrapped in a gothic murder mystery. I loved it!'' 5* reader review
''Filled with lots of twists . . . the perfect one sitting read.'' 5* reader review
''A perfect small jewel of a story.'' 5* reader review
''I GASPED at several of the reveals. Christmas magic mixed with a quaint murder mystery.'' 5* reader review
'' Deliciously ingenious'' Daily Mail ''Smartly entertaining'' Washington Post If you''re on the list you''re marked for death... The envelope is unremarkable. There is no return address. It contains a single, folded, sheet of white paper. The envelope drops through the mail slot like any other piece of post. But for the nine complete strangers who receive it - each of them recognising just one name, their own, on the enclosed list - it will be the most life altering letter they ever receive. It could also be the last, as one by one, they start to meet their end. But why? What readers are saying: ''It gripped me from start to finish.'' ''Prepare to be blown away.'' ''Another fast paced edge of your seat masterclass.'' ''What an absolutely wild ride.'' ''Best Peter Swanson murder mystery I''ve read.'' ''An absolute winner . . . A must read for lovers of a good thriller.''
''A clever, ingenious, edge-of-your-seat thriller.''
LIV CONSTANTINE
''The stakes are high, the body count is higher, and yet I would still follow Lily anywhere.''
STACY WILLINGHAM
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE KIND WORTH KILLING
It was at this moment that Martha had two competing thoughts. One, that she''d married a nice
man. And, two, that he was a complete and utter stranger to her.
After an unexpected, whirlwind romance, quiet librarian Martha married Alan. But when she thinks she sees his mask slip, she starts to fear that the conferences he travels the country to attend might be a cover for something far more sinister.
As she secretly starts to map his movements she unearths a string of dead women, but could these two things really be linked? Unsure of her own instincts, Martha turns to an old friend, Lily Kintner, who once helped her escape a toxic relationship in grad school. But what Martha doesn''t know is that Lily has a dark side of her own . . .
''Nobody writes psychopaths like Swanson.''
MARK EDWARDS
A Sunday Times and Observer Thriller of the Month 'Deliciously good . . . Swanson's best thriller yet.' Observer 'Gripping, twisty . . . I could not put it down.' Alafair Burke When Hen and Lloyd move into their new house, they're relieved to meet another childless couple in their neighbourhood, Matthew and Mira. But when they're invited over for dinner, Hen thinks she sees something suspicious in Matthew's study. Could this mild-mannered schoolteacher really be hiding a dark secret, one that only Hen might know about? And even if she's right, who would believe her?
From a master of suspense... Eight classic murders. A single crime obsessive. Countless thrilling twists. A series of unsolved murders with one thing in common: each of the deaths bears an eerie resemblance to the crimes depicted in classic mystery novels. The deaths lead FBI Agent Gwen Mulvey to mystery bookshop Old Devils. Owner Malcolm Kershaw had once posted online an article titled 'My Eight Favourite Murders,' and there seems to be a deadly link between the deaths and his list - which includes Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders , Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train and Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Can the killer be stopped before all eight of these perfect murders have been re-enacted?
After a whirlwind, fairytale romance, Abigail Baskin marries freshly-minted Silicon Valley millionaire Bruce Lamb. For their honeymoon, he whisks her away to an exclusive retreat at a friend''s resort off the Maine coast on Heart Pond Island. But once there, Abigail''s perfect new life threatens to crash down around her as she recognises one of their fellow guests as the good looking, charismatic stranger who weeks earlier had seduced her at her own Bachelorette party... ''[Swanson is] in the ranks of the killer elite alongside Tana French and Gillian Flynn. He''s the real deal.'' Joe Hill
'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.
On the eve of his college graduation, Harry is called home by his step-mother Alice, to their house on the Maine coast, following the unexpected death of his father. But who really is Alice, his father's much younger second wife? In a brilliant split narrative, Peter Swanson teases out the stories and damage that lie in her past. And as her story entwines with Harry's in the present, things grow increasingly dark and threatening - will Harry be able to see any of it clearly through his own confused feelings?
'I loved it! A brilliantly original premise, delivered with panache.' CLARE MACKINTOSH, Sunday Times bestselling author of I See You Following a brutal attack, Kate Priddy makes the uncharacteristically bold decision of moving from London to Boston - in an apartment swap with her cousin, Corbin Dell. But soon after her arrival Kate makes a shocking discovery: Corbin's next-door neighbour, Audrey Marshall, may have been murdered. Far from home and emotionally unstable, her imagination playing out her every fear, who can Kate trust? As tantalizing as Rear Window, Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and The Talented Mr Ripley
