Nine Lives
'I loved this.' Ann Cleeves
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3.9 • 29 Ratings
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- £7.49
Publisher Description
'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 through the mail slot like any other piece of post. But for the nine complete
strangers who receive it - each of them recognising just one name, their own, on the enclosed list - it
will be the most life altering letter they ever receive. It could also be the last, as one by one, they start to
meet their end.
What readers are saying:
***** 'It gripped me from start to finish.'
***** 'Prepare to be blown away.'
***** 'Another fast paced edge of your seat masterclass.'
***** 'What an absolutely wild ride.'
***** 'Best Peter Swanson murder mystery I've read.'
***** 'An absolute winner . . . A must read for lovers of a good thriller.'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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 retired businessman, a rich man's mistress, an English professor, an oncology nurse, and FBI agent Jessica Winslow—each receives an envelope in the mail from an unknown sender containing only an identical list of nine names, including their own. The recipients, who don't recognize the other names on the list, vary in their initial reactions; some are disturbed, while others barely pay attention to it. Then someone drowns one of the nine. Winslow, a federal investigator in Albany, N.Y., begins to probe whether the eight others, who have no apparent connections to one another, are all targets of a killer. Winslow's mission becomes more urgent when another on the list is gunned down. Swanson makes the plotline plausible, despite radically transforming the setting from Christie's isolated island with its closed circle of suspects, to the entire continental U.S. This is a well-crafted page-turner.
