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Peter Swanson

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in Concord, Massachusetts, The United States

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Thriller, Mystery, Fiction

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Peter Swanson is the author of six novels including The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, Her Every Fear, an NPR book of the year, and his most recent thriller, Eight Perfect Murders. His books have been translated into 30 languages, and his stories, poetry, and features have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Atlantic Monthly, Measure, The Guardian, The Strand Magazine, and Yankee Magazine.

A graduate of Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College, he lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his wife and cat.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 392,253 ratings · 48,623 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Kind Worth Killing (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 142,510 ratings — published 2015 — 100 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eight Perfect Murders 3.64 avg rating — 64,346 ratings — published 2020 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Before She Knew Him 3.86 avg rating — 51,885 ratings — published 2019 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Every Vow You Break 3.51 avg rating — 40,374 ratings — published 2021 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Her Every Fear 3.76 avg rating — 29,901 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nine Lives 3.57 avg rating — 26,892 ratings — published 2022 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All the Beautiful Lies by Peter Swanson (Goodreads Author), Sarah Mollo-Christensen (Narrator) 3.61 avg rating — 18,096 ratings — published 2018 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl with a Clock for a Heart 3.35 avg rating — 15,513 ratings — published 2014 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kind Worth Saving (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #2) 3.88 avg rating — 2,318 ratings — published 2023 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Honeymoon Trap 3.36 avg rating — 236 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Books are time travel. True readers all know this. But books don’t just take you back to the time in which they were written; they can take you back to different versions of yourself.”
― Peter Swanson, Eight Perfect Murders

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“Everyone has a full life, even if it ends soon. All lives are complete experiences.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing

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“any life at all is probably more than any of us deserves.”
― Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing

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February 2016 Side Read Nominations- 2nd Poll

The Lake House

by Kate Morton

22 votes, 30.1%

The Kind Worth Killing

by Peter Swanson

12 votes, 16.4%

Station Eleven

by Emily St. John Mandel

11 votes, 15.1%

Between Shades of Gray

by Ruta Sepetys

11 votes, 15.1%

Brooklyn

by Colm Tóibín

9 votes, 12.3%

The Last Anniversary

by Liane Moriarty

8 votes, 11.0%

73 total votes

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