Ngagingly original.… multilayered mystery that brims with duplicity, betrayal and revenge-all bubbling slowly to the surface in increasingly bloody pages.… Fans won’t be disappointed.… Swanson plants clues and misdirections throughout. ( From the publisher and the author's website.) He lives with his wife and cat in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Swanson has degrees in creative writing, education, and literature from Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College. He has won awards in poetry from The Lyric and Yankee Magazine, and is currently completing a sonnet sequence on all 53 of Alfred Hitchcock’s films. Swanson's poems, stories and reviews have appeared in such journals as The Atlantic, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Epoch, Measure, Notre Dame Review, Soundings East, and The Vocabula Review. Eight Perfect Murders (2020) is his most recent. Peter Swanson is the author of several novels: The Girl with a Clock for a Heart (2014) The Kind Worth Killing (2015), Her Every Fear (2016), and Before She Knew Him (2019). Currently-lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.Education-B.A., Trinity College M.A., University of Massachusetts-Amherst M.F.A., Emerson College.Suddenly, a series of shocking twists leaves more victims dead-and the noose around Mal’s neck grows so tight he might never escape.

But Mal doesn’t count on the investigation leaving a trail of death in its wake. To protect himself, Mal begins looking into possible suspects … and sees a killer in everyone around him. There is killer is out there, watching his every move-a diabolical threat who knows way too much about Mal’s personal history, especially the secrets he’s never told anyone, even his recently deceased wife. She’s looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on Mal’s old list.Īnd the FBI agent isn’t the only one interested in this bookseller who spends almost every night at home reading.

Macdonald's The Drowner, and Donna Tartt's A Secret History.īut no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookstore in Boston, when an FBI agent comes knocking on his door one snowy day in February. Milne's Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox's Malice Aforethought, James M. Murders, Patricia Highsmith’s Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin’s Death Trap, A. The titles were chosen from among the best of the best-including Agatha Christie’s A. Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre’s most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack-which he titled “Eight Perfect Murders,” A chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction’s most ingenious murders.

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