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The skillfully conjured Boston winter creates the perfect atmosphere for breeding paranoia, which kicks into high gear with the introduction of Cherney's Rear Window-like flashbacks. Swanson ... introduces a delicious monster-under-the-bed creepiness to the expected top-notch characterization and steadily mounting anxiety. --Booklist (starred review) on Her Every Fear The spirit of film noir is alive in this twisty tale of an ordinary man whose life is disrupted by his first love--an old-fashioned femme fatale who brings double crossings, financial scams and murder in her devastating wake. Clever and stylish. --Sunday Mirror (UK) on The Girl With a Clock For a Heart The Year's Best Fiction: ... A taut thriller with a mounting body count and a final twist so ruthlessly clever it's criminal. --Entertainment Weekly on The Kind Worth Killing This devilishly clever noir thriller could have been called Strangers on a Plane. ... It would have made a great Hitchcock movie.... Unlike most books that fail to live up to the hype, this one makes good on the promise, right down to the chilling final paragraph. --Fort Worth Star-Telegram The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride and an absolute blast from start to finish. --Dennis Lehane This atmospheric, stylish mystery is pure pleasure. --Sunday Mirror (UK) on All the Beautiful Lies Gripping... [Alice's] past is peppered with secrets and the damage is revealed in a split narrative between now and then, culminating in an edge of the seat ending. --Sunday Post (UK) on All the Beautiful Lies There are many twists and turns, and quite a few surprises along the way.... A solid, twisty work of suspense. --PCA/ACA Mystery & Detective Fiction Reading List on All the Beautiful Lies An explosive mix of seductions, obsessions, and dark secrets. --New York Journal of Books on All the Beautiful Lies Swanson has drawn on Alfred Hitchcock to good effect. In All the Beautiful Lies, he looks instead to du Maurier... 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. --The Guardian Complex [and] intriguing... [Swanson] makes sure to place those twists and turns perfectly... And when someone else turns up dead, the story goes from 0-to-60 in a split-second. Peter Swanson has done a fantastic job. --Suspense Magazine on All the Beautiful Lies Swanson's fourth psychological thriller is a gripping exploration of delusion and deceit; sure to please readers of Laura Lippman's stand-alones. --Booklist on All the Beautiful Lies Praise for All the Beautiful Lies Suspense lovers will devour this deliciously duplicitous read, which is chock-full of twists, turns, lust, greed, and dishonesty. --Library Journal on All the Beautiful Lies What would happen if a serial killer met the perfect confidant, someone who would never be believed if they revealed his secrets? Nothing good... Swanson has crafted another bar-raising psychological thriller with this tense, unexpected spin on serial killers and those obsessed with them. --Booklist A twisty, fast-paced tale that depicts picket-fence suburbia's seamy, murderous underside... Swanson is at his best in exploring the kinship--or what some see as the kinship--between artist and killer, one of the themes of Swanson's great model and forebear, Patricia Highsmith... A dark, quick-moving, suspenseful story. --Kirkus Reviews In Peter Swanson's expert hands, one woman's discerning observation at a quiet suburban dinner party unfolds into a gripping, twisty, psychologically complex thriller. I could not put it down. --Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Woven into this twisty-turny murder thriller is mental illness and the instability it causes. Maybe worse than not being able to rely on yourself is that other people might not believe you. How can they be sure you're not being paranoid, or manic, or obsessive? --The Big Thrill Plenty of suspense and surprises... This intense and sinister thriller builds to a shocking conclusion as the bizarre relationship between a woman and her killer neighbor plays out. --ShelfAwareness.com A wicked thriller that does not disappoint... Another gem that pulls the reader in and never lets go, even as the story comes to a close. This is a book that will keep you up at night and haunt your thoughts. A fun, chilling read. --Manhattan Book Review What would you do if you began to suspect your next door neighbor was a serial killer? That is the dilemma faced by artist Hen - and the jumping off point for this very contemporary thriller that will keep you gripped through every elegant twist and turn. --Sunday Mirror (UK) [A] neatly knotted suspense story. --New York Times Book Review This acutely perceptive writer has become a master of psychological chills and thrills, transforming what appears to be 'cosy domestic' into something infinitely more dangerous and deadly... A sizzling slice of his unique brand of domestic noir... Tingling with tension [and] brimming with menace. --The Guardian (UK) In trademark style, Swanson's ingenious plotting throws up tantalising clues and then slowly unravels them through a series of shocking revelations, leaving readers confused, bemused and racing to the last page. Compelling, creepy, and psychologically astute, this is stylish thriller writing at its very best. --The Guardian (UK) [Swanson] knows how to ration his twists and where in the narrative to place them, devoting just the right amount of time to exploring the ramifications of each new development before spinning the story off in an ominous new direction... De Palma, or Hitchcock... would kill for the film rights. --The National (UK) There's a neat twist at the end, but the real surprise is the way characters are allowed to grieve their losses, a luxury not always allowed in stories of this type. For a fast-paced thriller, Before She Knew Him achieves an impressive significance in its pauses. --BookPage Mr. Swanson unfolds this creepy story with the assurance and economy of a master. Surprises follow one another with inevitability, until the final electrifying jolt. --Wall Street Journal

A twisty, fast-paced tale that depicts picket-fence suburbia's seamy, murderous underside... Swanson is at his best in exploring the kinship--or what some see as the kinship--between artist and killer, one of the themes of Swanson's great model and forebear, Patricia Highsmith... A dark, quick-moving, suspenseful story. --Kirkus Reviews This devilishly clever noir thriller could have been called Strangers on a Plane. ... It would have made a great Hitchcock movie.... Unlike most books that fail to live up to the hype, this one makes good on the promise, right down to the chilling final paragraph. --Fort Worth Star-Telegram What would happen if a serial killer met the perfect confidant, someone who would never be believed if they revealed his secrets? Nothing good... Swanson has crafted another bar-raising psychological thriller with this tense, unexpected spin on serial killers and those obsessed with them. --Booklist In trademark style, Swanson's ingenious plotting throws up tantalising clues and then slowly unravels them through a series of shocking revelations, leaving readers confused, bemused and racing to the last page. Compelling, creepy, and psychologically astute, this is stylish thriller writing at its very best. --The Guardian (UK) There's a neat twist at the end, but the real surprise is the way characters are allowed to grieve their losses, a luxury not always allowed in stories of this type. For a fast-paced thriller, Before She Knew Him achieves an impressive significance in its pauses. --BookPage This acutely perceptive writer has become a master of psychological chills and thrills, transforming what appears to be 'cosy domestic' into something infinitely more dangerous and deadly... A sizzling slice of his unique brand of domestic noir... Tingling with tension [and] brimming with menace. --The Guardian (UK) [Swanson] knows how to ration his twists and where in the narrative to place them, devoting just the right amount of time to exploring the ramifications of each new development before spinning the story off in an ominous new direction... De Palma, or Hitchcock... would kill for the film rights. --The National (UK) Mr. Swanson unfolds this creepy story with the assurance and economy of a master. Surprises follow one another with inevitability, until the final electrifying jolt. --Wall Street Journal The spirit of film noir is alive in this twisty tale of an ordinary man whose life is disrupted by his first love--an old-fashioned femme fatale who brings double crossings, financial scams and murder in her devastating wake. Clever and stylish. --Sunday Mirror (UK) on The Girl With a Clock For a Heart This atmospheric, stylish mystery is pure pleasure. --Sunday Mirror (UK) on All the Beautiful Lies Gripping... [Alice's] past is peppered with secrets and the damage is revealed in a split narrative between now and then, culminating in an edge of the seat ending. --Sunday Post (UK) on All the Beautiful Lies An explosive mix of seductions, obsessions, and dark secrets. --New York Journal of Books on All the Beautiful Lies Complex [and] intriguing... [Swanson] makes sure to place those twists and turns perfectly... And when someone else turns up dead, the story goes from 0-to-60 in a split-second. Peter Swanson has done a fantastic job. --Suspense Magazine on All the Beautiful Lies Praise for All the Beautiful Lies Suspense lovers will devour this deliciously duplicitous read, which is chock-full of twists, turns, lust, greed, and dishonesty. --Library Journal on All the Beautiful Lies The skillfully conjured Boston winter creates the perfect atmosphere for breeding paranoia, which kicks into high gear with the introduction of Cherney's Rear Window-like flashbacks. Swanson ... introduces a delicious monster-under-the-bed creepiness to the expected top-notch characterization and steadily mounting anxiety. --Booklist (starred review) on Her Every Fear The Year's Best Fiction: ... A taut thriller with a mounting body count and a final twist so ruthlessly clever it's criminal. --Entertainment Weekly on The Kind Worth Killing The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride and an absolute blast from start to finish. --Dennis Lehane There are many twists and turns, and quite a few surprises along the way.... A solid, twisty work of suspense. --PCA/ACA Mystery & Detective Fiction Reading List on All the Beautiful Lies Swanson has drawn on Alfred Hitchcock to good effect. In All the Beautiful Lies, he looks instead to du Maurier... 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. --The Guardian Swanson's fourth psychological thriller is a gripping exploration of delusion and deceit; sure to please readers of Laura Lippman's stand-alones. --Booklist on All the Beautiful Lies In Peter Swanson's expert hands, one woman's discerning observation at a quiet suburban dinner party unfolds into a gripping, twisty, psychologically complex thriller. I could not put it down. --Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife

In Peter Swanson's expert hands, one woman's discerning observation at a quiet suburban dinner party unfolds into a gripping, twisty, psychologically complex thriller. I could not put it down. --Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife

This devilishly clever noir thriller could have been called Strangers on a Plane. ... It would have made a great Hitchcock movie.... Unlike most books that fail to live up to the hype, this one makes good on the promise, right down to the chilling final paragraph. --Fort Worth Star-Telegram A twisty, fast-paced tale that depicts picket-fence suburbia's seamy, murderous underside... Swanson is at his best in exploring the kinship--or what some see as the kinship--between artist and killer, one of the themes of Swanson's great model and forebear, Patricia Highsmith... A dark, quick-moving, suspenseful story. --Kirkus Reviews The spirit of film noir is alive in this twisty tale of an ordinary man whose life is disrupted by his first love--an old-fashioned femme fatale who brings double crossings, financial scams and murder in her devastating wake. Clever and stylish. --Sunday Mirror (UK) on The Girl With a Clock For a Heart The Year's Best Fiction: ... A taut thriller with a mounting body count and a final twist so ruthlessly clever it's criminal. --Entertainment Weekly on The Kind Worth Killing The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is a twisty, sexy, electric thrill ride and an absolute blast from start to finish. --Dennis Lehane Gripping... [Alice's] past is peppered with secrets and the damage is revealed in a split narrative between now and then, culminating in an edge of the seat ending. --Sunday Post (UK) on All the Beautiful Lies There are many twists and turns, and quite a few surprises along the way.... A solid, twisty work of suspense. --PCA/ACA Mystery & Detective Fiction Reading List on All the Beautiful Lies Swanson has drawn on Alfred Hitchcock to good effect. In All the Beautiful Lies, he looks instead to du Maurier... 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. --The Guardian Swanson's fourth psychological thriller is a gripping exploration of delusion and deceit; sure to please readers of Laura Lippman's stand-alones. --Booklist on All the Beautiful Lies The skillfully conjured Boston winter creates the perfect atmosphere for breeding paranoia, which kicks into high gear with the introduction of Cherney's Rear Window-like flashbacks. Swanson ... introduces a delicious monster-under-the-bed creepiness to the expected top-notch characterization and steadily mounting anxiety. --Booklist (starred review) on Her Every Fear This atmospheric, stylish mystery is pure pleasure. --Sunday Mirror (UK) on All the Beautiful Lies An explosive mix of seductions, obsessions, and dark secrets. --New York Journal of Books on All the Beautiful Lies Complex [and] intriguing... [Swanson] makes sure to place those twists and turns perfectly... And when someone else turns up dead, the story goes from 0-to-60 in a split-second. Peter Swanson has done a fantastic job. --Suspense Magazine on All the Beautiful Lies Praise for All the Beautiful Lies Suspense lovers will devour this deliciously duplicitous read, which is chock-full of twists, turns, lust, greed, and dishonesty. --Library Journal on All the Beautiful Lies In Peter Swanson's expert hands, one woman's discerning observation at a quiet suburban dinner party unfolds into a gripping, twisty, psychologically complex thriller. I could not put it down. --Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife

Author Information

Peter Swanson is the New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger; Her Every Fear, an NPR book of the year; and Eight Perfect Murders, a New York Times bestseller, among others. His books have been translated into 30 languages. He lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts, where he is at work on his next novel.

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