KIND WORTH KILLING - Softcover

SWANSON, PETER

4.01

186,958 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571302211 ISBN 13: 9780571302215

Publisher: FABER & FABER OME, 2015

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'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:

"Chilling and hypnotically suspenseful ... could be an instant classic."--Lee Child, author of Personal

"A fun read, full of switchbacks and double crosses... With classic misdirection, Swanson distracts us from the details - changing up murderers and victims fast enough to keep us reading. And, implausibly, rooting for the cold-blooded killer at this thriller's core."--Boston Globe

"A twisty tale of warring sociopaths [and] a good companion to similar stories by Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn."--Booklist

"A devilishly twisty plot, with some gasp-inducing moments. And the ending is terrific."--Bookseller (UK)

"[Lily] becomes my favourite sociopath--and believe me, there are plenty of them in this very convincing, tightly-plotted novel of revenge and betrayal. . . . Very entertaining."--Daily Mail (UK)

"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, author of NOS4A2

"Peter Swanson has updated Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train for the new millennium...This is a well written and highly accomplished thriller... You cannot fail to be captivated by this book."--Tatler (UK)

"A wicked tale full of wicked characters... Sublime writing and more than a few sit-up-straight surprises."--Huffington Post

"Gripping, elegantly and stylishly written, and extremely hard to put down!"--Sophie Hannah, author of The Monogram Murders and Kind of Cruel

"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, author of The Expats

Book Description:

Peter Swanson returns with 2015's most compulsive thriller.

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