From the author of The Girl with a Clock for a Heart comes The Kind Worth Killing, another dark literary suspense novel about a random encounter and the murders that follow. On a late flight from London to Boston millionaire Ted Severson meets the mysterious and beautiful Lily Kintner. Over one too many martinis, Ted reveals secrets about his wife Miranda—how his marriage has gone stale, how a week ago he caught her in an adulterous act with their architect. And when Ted jokes that he would like to kill Miranda for what she’s done, Lily calmly states, “I’d like to help.” After all, she continues, what difference does it make if a few bad apples get pushed along a little sooner than life intended?
Back in Boston, Ted and Lily forge a strange, twisted bond while plotting Miranda’s demise. But Lily has her own dark history she’s not sharing with Ted, and suddenly these co-conspirators are pulled into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with some very surprising results.
This book is SO good – I really liked his first one, but this one is stellar. It has 3 separate parts and at the end of each, you are just like WHA???? What just happened??
Joe Hill, author of NOS4A2 and Horns says “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, Gillian Flynn, and Lauren Beukes. He’s the real deal.”