The Kind Worth Killing
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4.6 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICE
BEST THRILLER, iBOOKS BEST OF 2015
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IAN FLEMING SILVER DAGGER, 2015
SUNDAY TIMES, TATLER, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND GOLDSBORO BOOK OF THE MONTH
You should never talk to strangers
With his flight delayed, Ted Severson meets Lily Kintner, a magnetic stranger, in an airport bar. In the netherworld of international travel and too many martinis, he confesses his darkest secrets, about his wife's infidelity and how he wishes her dead. Without missing a beat Lily offers to help him carry out the task.
'Gripping, elegantly and stylishly written and extremely hard to put down.' Sophie Hannah
'A work of lovely violence and graceful malevolence, it slips into your life like a stiletto in the ribs.' Joe Hill
'Gone Girl on speed.' Daisy Goodwin
'Chilling and hypnotically suspenseful ... an instant classic.' Lee Child
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
American writer Peter Swanson first came to our attention with his impressive debut thriller, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart. His dark and elegant follow-up grabbed us from page one. After two strangers named Ted and Lily exchange martinis and candid conversation in a Heathrow lounge, they hatch a plan to kill Ted’s cheating wife, Miranda. Switching among the perspectives of his main characters—Ted, Lily, Miranda and an obsessive detective—Swanson keeps up an electrifying pace, luring us in with pulpy details and gasp-worthy reveals. Fans of Gone Girl will appreciate Lily, a femme fatale who casually quotes T.S. Eliot.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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 Winslow College outside Boston, meet by chance in a Heathrow airport lounge, they trade intimate secrets: Ted wants to kill his unfaithful wife, Miranda and Lily, who's about Miranda's age, wants to help. Unbeknownst to Ted, Lily has made a career of dispassionate homicide, at one point musing, "to take another life was, in many ways, the greatest expression of what it meant to be alive." While Ted and Lily hatch their devious scheme back in Boston, police detective Henry Kimball tries to untangle the web of deceit that surrounds Lily. With scalpel-sharp prose, Swanson probes the nature of cold-blooded evil. Few will be prepared for the crushing climax.
