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By (author) Swanson Peter
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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?
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICE
BEST THRILLER, iBOOKS BEST OF 2015
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IAN FLEMING SILVER DAGGER, 2015
SUNDAY TIMES, TATLER, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND GOLDSBORO BOOK OF THE MONTH
You should never talk to strangers
With his flight delayed, Ted Severson meets Lily Kintner, a magnetic stranger, in an airport bar. In the netherworld of international travel and too many martinis, he confesses his darkest secrets, about his wife”s infidelity and how he wishes her dead. Without missing a beat Lily offers to help him carry out the task.
”Gripping, elegantly and stylishly written and extremely hard to put down.”
Sophie Hannah
”A work of lovely violence and graceful malevolence, it slips into your life like a stiletto in the ribs.”
Joe Hill
”Gone Girl on speed.”
Daisy Goodwin
”Chilling and hypnotically suspenseful … an instant classic.”
Lee Child
Biographical note
Peter Swanson”s debut novel, The Girl With a Clock for a Heart (2014), was described by Dennis Lehane as ”a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride” and in the Observer as ”very hard not to read in one sitting”. He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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Peter Swanson returns with 2015”s most compulsive thriller.
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Gripping, elegantly and stylishly written, and extremely hard to put down!
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”Chilling and hypnotically suspenseful … could be an instant classic.”
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If you”re engaged to get married, by all means read something else.
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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.
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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, Gillian Flynn, and Lauren Beukes. He”s the real deal.
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Gone Girl on speed.
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Revenge has rarely been served colder than in Swanson”s exceptional thriller … Few will be prepared for the crushing climax.
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A twisty tale of warring sociopaths [and] a good companion to similar stories by Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn.
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Revenge has rarely been served colder than in Swanson”s exceptional thriller, his second standalone after 2013”s The Girl With a Clock for a Heart …With scalpel sharp prose, Swanson probes the nature of cold-blooded evil. Few will be prepared for the crushing climax.
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The Kind Worth Killing is a tightly plotted novel of betrayal set in London and Boston.
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Prepare yourselves for some sleight-of-hand shocks in
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