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'A dazzlingly clever murder mystery, told backwards.' GILLIAN McALLISTER
'Deliciously dark.' JOHN MARRS
'Exhilarating' DANYA KUKAFKA
'Ingenious' LAURA LIPPMAN
What if the only way to bury the truth is to bury your husband?
The first attempt at killing her husband was the night of the dinner party.
Wendy and Thom met at school and through four decades of birthday milestones, weekends away and raising a son, they've lived a seemingly comfortable and successful life together. But what are the dark secrets their marriage was built on, and what has now, fatally, changed?
Readers were gripped by Kill Your Darlings:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Twisty, gripping and wonderfully dark. Everything you could ask for'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Brilliant . . . the unusual original structure of this book sets it apart from countless others in the genre.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Fascinating and chilling - this is more than just a murder story, we also witness the slow destruction of a marriage.'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Inventive and oh so clever . . . I raced through this'
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Whoa - the backwards telling was ingenious!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I read it in 2 sittings! Always a surprising twist!'
Genre: Mystery
Praise for this book
"A feat of structural magnificence-- the instant I turned the final page, I flipped straight back to the start to put it all together again. Exhilarating and exceptionally clever, Kill Your Darlings zings with a singular sense of tension. Peter Swanson writes with the lyrical acuity of a literary master." - Danya Kukafka
"An ingenious twist on a noir classic, about the hell that awaits co-conspirators Wendy and Thom after they become a 'happy' married couple. Swanson's decision to move swiftly backward in time over 40-plus years is surprisingly suspenseful. I raced through the pages, anxious to learn the couple's last deadly secret -- and I was not disappointed." - Laura Lippman
"I absolutely loved it. What a deliciously dark book." - John Marrs
"An incredible tour de force of structure and character and plot - from beginning to end! (Or, should I say, from end to beginning). Peter Swanson is a flat out genius, and his ingenious Kill Your Darlings is truly remarkable and utterly original. Relentlessly sinister and absolutely gripping, this contemporary noir is a masterclass in storytelling and brain-exploding writerly skill. Deeply psychological and impeccably structured, its deeply psychological underpinnings will have you holding your breath as you turn the pages--it's crushingly inevitable and completely haunting. And I honestly applauded at the ending. Standing ovation for this brilliant book!" - Hank Phillippi Ryan
"An ingenious twist on a noir classic, about the hell that awaits co-conspirators Wendy and Thom after they become a 'happy' married couple. Swanson's decision to move swiftly backward in time over 40-plus years is surprisingly suspenseful. I raced through the pages, anxious to learn the couple's last deadly secret -- and I was not disappointed." - Laura Lippman
"I absolutely loved it. What a deliciously dark book." - John Marrs
"An incredible tour de force of structure and character and plot - from beginning to end! (Or, should I say, from end to beginning). Peter Swanson is a flat out genius, and his ingenious Kill Your Darlings is truly remarkable and utterly original. Relentlessly sinister and absolutely gripping, this contemporary noir is a masterclass in storytelling and brain-exploding writerly skill. Deeply psychological and impeccably structured, its deeply psychological underpinnings will have you holding your breath as you turn the pages--it's crushingly inevitable and completely haunting. And I honestly applauded at the ending. Standing ovation for this brilliant book!" - Hank Phillippi Ryan
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