Peter Swanson

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. - Stacey Willingham, from the Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Time Worth Killing It was at this moment that Martha had two competing thoughts. One, that she'd married a nice man. And, two, that...

Deliciously good - dry, intelligent, perfectly paced ... Swanson's best thriller yet - The Guardian They had a secret, the two of them, and there was no better way to start a friendship than with a secret. When Hen and Lloyd move into their new house in West Dartford, Mass., they're relieved to meet, at their first block party, the...

'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...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders comes an inventive, utterly propulsive murder-mystery in reverse, tracing a marriage back in time to uncover the dark secret at its heart. Thom and Wendy Graves have been married for over twenty-five years. They live in a beautiful Victorian on the north shore of...

'Deliciously ingenious.' - Daily Mail 'Keeps you guessing right to the end.' - PETER MAY 'Smartly entertaining.' - Washington Post 'So beautifully written, so gripping, so perfect.' - SOPHIE HANNAH 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...

This year's must-read festive chiller, a classic country house murder mystery. From the Sunday Times bestselling author 'TIS THE SEASON TO BE WARY 'Fiendishly good.' - Observer 'One of the world's best crime writers.' - MARK EDWARDS 'Superb, elegant crime writing with more than a nod to the genre's past.' - Daily Mail When Ashley Smith - a bright-eyed but...

Fiendish good fun - ANTHONY HOROWITZ If you want to get away with murder, play by the rules... Years ago Malcolm Kershaw wrote a list of his 'Eight Favourite Murders' for his Old Devils mystery bookshop blog. Among others, it included those from Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders, Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train and Donna Tartt's The Secret History....

'They had a secret, the two of them, and there was no better way to start a friendship than with a secret.' When Hen and Lloyd move into their new house in West Dartford, Mass, they're relieved to meet, at their first block party, the only other seemingly childless couple in their neighbourhood, Matthew and Mira Dolamore. Turns out they...

The bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying psychological thriller. As tantalising as Rear Window, Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train, and The Talented Mr Ripley. '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...

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...

The famous detective returns in a thrilling anthology of 12 Sherlock short stories spanning Holmes's entire career, penned by Peter Swanson, Cara Black, James Lovegrove and more. Sherlock Holmes: A Detective's Life is a brand-new collection of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories spanning his entire career, from the early days in Baker Street to his retirement on the South Downs....

A devious tale of psychological suspense so irresistible that it prompts Entertainment Weekly to ask, "Is The Kind Worth Killing the next Gone Girl?" From one of the hottest new thriller writers, Peter Swanson—a name you may not know yet (but soon will)—this is his breakout novel in the bestselling tradition of Paula Hawkins' The Girl on the Train and...

Hitchcockian chills and thrills abound in Swanson's latest mystery, a twisty tale of survival and deception. - O, the Oprah Magazine A bride's dream honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man with whom she's had a regrettable one-night stand shows up in this electrifying psychological thriller with a terrifying twist from the acclaimed author of Eight Perfect Murders. Abigail Baskin...

[A] smartly entertaining reimagining of Agatha Christie's classic And Then There Were None... Swanson cunningly plays with readers' heads as we hope so-and-so gets it next. -- Washington Post If you're on the list, someone wants you dead. From the New York Times bestselling author of Eight Perfect Murders comes the heart-pounding story of nine strangers who receive a cryptic...

The inventive Mr. Swanson never lets the willing reader down. With The Kind Worth Saving, he surpasses his own high standard. -- Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal In this spectacularly devious novel of domestic suspense by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson, a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband, but little does he know that the...

The inventive Mr. Swanson never lets the willing reader down. With The Kind Worth Saving, he surpasses his own high standard. -- Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal In this spectacularly devious novel of domestic suspense by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson, a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husband. Little does he know that the twisted...

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,...

'Deeply entertaining..' - New York Times 'Glamorous, dark and terrifying.' - Independent When Abigail Baskin marries millionaire Bruce Lamb, her life seems perfect. Until, on their island honeymoon, she recognises a charismatic stranger... As the island closes in, can she outrun the lies that surround her marriage? 'Another top-notch thriller from Swanson. I picked this up intending to take a...

Do you remember me? she asked, after stepping into my office. When private detective and former teacher Henry Kimball is hired to investigate an ex-pupil's 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 gets ever stranger, he turns to the...