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.
But why?
Review
I loved this, Swanson's sharp and insightful characterization brought to life a fascinating premise, beautifully worked out. -- Ann Cleeves
So beautifully written, so gripping, so perfect. And the last line.soooo clever! -- Sophie Hannah
With economical strokes of his pen, Peter Swanson presents us with a clever homage to the Golden Age of Mystery which keeps you guessing right to the end. -- Peter May
Swanson again takes the idea of fiction as homage to deliriously vertiginous new heights ... Old-school mystery, certainly, but delivered with a wonderful new-school sensibility. - Booklist, starred review
Book Description
Peter Swanson is back - with a chilling and fiendish puzzle of a novel which everyone will be talking about this Spring.
About the Author
Peter Swanson's novels include The Girl With a Clock for a Heart, nominated for an LA Times book award, The Kind Worth Killing, a Richard and Judy pick and the iBooks store's thriller of the year in 2015; Rules for Perfect Murders, the 2020 Richard and Judy Pick; and most recently Nine Lives. He lives with his wife and cat on the north coast of Massachusetts.