All the Beautiful Lies - Hardcover

Swanson, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571327176 ISBN 13: 9780571327171

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2018

Synopsis

'He's the real deal...' JOE HILL

'Another read in one sitting from the best-selling Swanson.' METRO

'A brilliantly original premise, delivered with panache.' CLARE MACKINTOSH

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?

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Review

'Crammed with twists, turns and duplicity galore, Swanson's fiendishly clever thriller gets the brain cells ticking over nicely...The narrative, split between Harry's present and Alice's salacious past, soars to a nerve-shredding finale that will leave you gasping.' Source: Saga

'This gripping novel can be devoured in one sitting.' Source: The Sunday Post

'As Swanson's previous novels have, All the Beautiful Lies has a very rich texture which the reader gets to see only gradually, so cleverly it is disguised. It is painstaking work by Swanson: I can imagine him chiselling at the rough outline of his work, peeling away all that's superfluous and chipping out the unnecessary, leaving enough kinks in the work so that some parts of it are initially hidden from the readers' view, only to be revealed by a sudden, small shift in perspective.' Source: Thriller Books Journal

'This atmospheric, stylish mystery is pure pleasure.' Author: Deirdre O’Brien Source: Sunday Mirror & The People

'A compulsive read.' Source: Good Housekeeping, 'Thriller of the Month'

'A story with a hint of Hitchcock and Highsmith, this is a dual narrative that creeps up on you by stealth, until you find yourself completely hooked.' Source: Wiltshire Living Magazine

'Peter Swanson has drawn on Alfred Hitchcock in earlier books to good effect. In All the Beautiful Lies he looks instead to Daphne du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel, with its seductive female relative who may have murdered the hapless hero's close relative. . . The reader is soon gripped and wondering which will come first: Harry's seduction or his death? Swanson's magpie borrowings are always finessed into something fresh and piquant.' Author: Barry Forshaw Source: Guardian

'What a compelling exercise in storytelling. Part crime, part psychological thriller, All the Beautiful Lies rests on a clever narrative trick...A fantastic read.' Source: Herald

'Swanson's fourth Highsmithian psychological thriller is typically well constructed.' Author: John Dugdale Source: Sunday Times

'The real mystery underpinning this gripping tale concerns the strange relationships...his writing is meticulous and alert.' Author: Christena Appleyard Source: Daily Mail

Book Description

In a dark and brilliant guessing game of a novel - evoking Patricia Highsmith and Agatha Christie - Peter Swanson once again displays his unique gift for lovingly reprising and refreshing mystery writing's greatest tropes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0571327176
• ISBN 13: 9780571327171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304