Delayed in London, Ted Severson meets a woman at the airport bar. Over cocktails they tell each other rather more than they should, and a dark plan is hatched - but are either of them being serious, could they actually go through with it and, if they did, what would be their chances of getting away with it?
Review
Gripping, elegantly and stylishly written, and extremely hard to put down! - SOPHIE HANNAH
'Chilling and hypnotically suspenseful ... could be an instant classic.' - LEE CHILD
If you're engaged to get married, by all means read something else. - CHRIS PAVONE
An extraordinarily well-written tale of deceit and revenge told by a very gifted writer.Peter Swanson takes us on a harrowing journey through the hearts and minds of a cast of characters who seem normal on the outside, but are deliciously abnormal on the inside. - NELSON DEMILLE
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. - JOE HILL
Gone Girl on speed. - DAISY GOODWIN
Revenge has rarely been served colder than in Swanson's exceptional thriller ... Few will be prepared for the crushing climax. - Publisher's Weekly
A twisty tale of warring sociopaths [and] a good companion to similar stories by Laura Lippman and Gillian Flynn. - Booklist
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 ...With scalpel sharp prose, Swanson probes the nature of cold-blooded evil. Few will be prepared for the crushing climax. - Publisher's Weekly, stared review
The Kind Worth Killing is a tightly plotted novel of betrayal set in London and Boston. - Irish Times
Prepare yourselves for some sleight-of-hand shocks in The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson...Well done Peter Swanson for giving a new twist to the classic love triangle, and for deftly showing us the unexpected dark side that even the most ordinary people can harbour. -- Nicola Mira - Thriller Books Journal
'His central premise may be borrowed from Strangers on a Train, but Swanson takes the notion in some truly startling directions, excelling in the vividly etched characterisation of his protagonists (such as Ted's ruthless wife Miranda, nurturing her own secrets). But what makes