Peter Swanson. Morrow, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-226749-8
At the start of Swanson’s Machiavellian debut noir, magazine business manager George Foss spots Liana Decter, a college girlfriend he hasn’t seen in nearly two decades, in a Boston bar. Back then, George got off relatively unscathed: a broken heart...
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Peter Swanson. Morrow, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-238410-2
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. When Ted Severson, a wealthy Boston entrepreneur, and Lily Kintner, an attractive archivist at...
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Peter Swanson. Morrow, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-242702-1
Kate Priddy, the heroine of this unconvincing psychological thriller from Swanson (The Kind Worth Killing), who’s still traumatized by a boyfriend turned stalker, impulsively agrees to swap her London flat with Corbin Dell, an American cousin she...
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Peter Swanson. Morrow, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-242705-2
Just before his college graduation, Harry Ackerson, the hero of this uneven psychological thriller from Swanson (Her Every Fear), learns from his stepmother, Alice, that his father, Bill, has apparently committed suicide. When the aimless and grief-s
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Peter Swanson. Morrow, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-320498-0
Bestseller Swanson (Nine Lives) cleverly plays with genre conventions in this twist-filled mystery. Boston PI Henry Kimball’s two previous jobs had bad endings. He’d been a Massachusetts high school English teacher but left after a student pulled a...
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Peter Swanson. Morrow, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-283815-5
At the start of this exceptional psychological thriller from Swanson (All the Beautiful Lies), bipolar Hen “Henrietta” Mazur and her husband, Lloyd Harding, have dinner one night at the suburban Boston home of neighbors Mira and Matt Dolamore, with...
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Edited by Martin Rosenstock. Titan, $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-789098-74-7
The 12 gifted contributors to Rosenstock’s outstanding second all-original anthology (after 2019’s Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Seven) each depict a different chapter in Holmes’s life. Standouts include the opener, Stuart Douglas’s “The Adventure of
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Peter Swanson. Morrow, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-283820-9
In 2004, Malcolm Kershaw, the narrator of this outstanding fair-play crime novel from Swanson (Before She Knew Him), began working at Boston’s Old Devils Bookstore, where he posted a list on the store’s blog of eight mysteries in which “the murderer
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Peter Swanson. Morrow, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-298003-8
This suspenseful thriller from Swanson (Eight Perfect Murders) explores a familiar genre theme—the consequences of entering a marriage with a guilty secret. As Abigail Baskin faces her approaching wedding to wealthy Bruce Lamb, she’s wracked with...
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Peter Swanson. Morrow, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-298007-6
Swanson (Every Vow You Break) neatly riffs on Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None in this taut thriller. Nine Americans from across the country—a stressed suburban father, an aspiring actor, a singer-songwriter, a resort owner, a...
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Peter Swanson. Morrow, $19.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-06-329745-6
Swanson (The Kind Worth Saving) does more with less in this punchy thriller that packs all the potency of his longer works. In 2019, an unnamed narrator decides to spend Christmas cleaning her New York City apartment. In the process, she rediscovers
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Peter Swanson. Morrow, $30 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-320503-1
Bestseller Swanson’s brilliant latest (following The Kind Worth Saving) revolves around a newlywed’s suspicions that her husband might be a murderer. Maine librarian Martha Ratliff is feeling uneasy about her recent marriage to traveling salesman...
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