“Nine Lives” by Peter Swanson (2022)

“Jonathan Grant, unless he let her know ahead of time that he couldn’t make it, always visited on Wednesday evening.”

And where better to end the year than with a twisty murder mystery? Peter Swanson wrote one of my favourite books ever, Rules for Perfect Murders, so it’s time to go back and see if it was just a fluke, or he’s just that good.

One September day, nine people across the United States get a letter in the mail. It’s simply a list of nine names – their own and eight others that they d...