Peter Swanson

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2014
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Henry Kimball

1 - The Kind Worth Killing (Feb-2015)
2 - The Kind Worth Saving (Mar-2023)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • The Girl with a Clock for a Heart

    An atmospheric tale of romantic noir with shades of Hitchcock about a man who is swept into a vortex of irresistible passion and murder when an old love mysteriously reappears George Foss, a forty-year-old employee of a Boston literary magazine, h...

  • The Kind Worth Killing

    Henry Kimball - 1

    A dark and devious literary suspense novel about a random encounter, sex, and a conversation that quickly turns to murder--a modern reimagining of Patricia Highsmith's classic Strangers on a Train--from the author of the acclaimed The Girl with a Clo...

  • Her Every Fear

    The author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller -- as tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Dark -- involving a young woman caught in a vis...

  • All the Beautiful Lies

    From the acclaimed author of Her Every Fear and The Kind Worth Killing comes a diabolically clever tale of obsession, revenge, and cold-blooded murder--a sly and brilliant guessing game of a novel in the vein of Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and Patricia...

  • Before She Knew Him

    Catching a killer is dangerous -- especially if he lives next door From the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing comes an exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban wife with a history of psychological instability whose fears about ...

  • Rules for Perfect Murders

    If you want to get away with murder, play by the rules A series of unsolved murders with one thing in common: each of the deaths bears an eerie resemblance to the crimes depicted in classic mystery novels. The deaths lead FBI Agent Gwen Mulvey to m...

  • Eight Perfect Murders

    From the hugely talented author of Before She Knew Him comes 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...

  • Every Vow You Break

    A bride’s dream honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man with whom she’s had a regrettable one-night stand shows up in this electrifying psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Eight Perfect Murders. Abigail Baskin never thought sh...

  • Nine Lives

    If you’re on the list, someone wants you dead. From the New York Times bestselling author of Eight Perfect Murders comes the heart-pounding story of nine strangers who receive a cryptic list with their names on it -- and then begin to die in hig...



  • A Detective's Life

    The famous detective returns in a thrilling anthology of 12 Sherlock short stories spanning Holmes’s entire career, penned by Peter Swanson, Cara Black, James Lovegrove and more.A brand-new collection of twelve Sherlock Holmes short stories wh...

  • The Honeymoon Trap

    A pulp novel has a book critic wondering if his new wife is out to kill him in this thrilling story by the New York Times"bestselling author of Nine Lives. When Henry arrives with his wife, Alice, for their honeymoon at a New England lake house, he...

  • The Kind Worth Saving

    Henry Kimball - 2

    In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson -- featuring the smart and complex Lily Kintner from his acclaimed novel, The Kind Worth Killing -- a private eye starts to follow a possibly adulterous husba...

  • The Christmas Guest

    “Delicious…I defy you to stop reading The Christmas Guest once you begin.”  -- New York Times Book ReviewNew York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson pens a spectacularly spine-chilling novella in which an American art student in Londo...

  • A Talent for Murder

    A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer -- in this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel by Peter Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight...

  • Kill Your Darlings

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders comes an inventive, utterly propulsive murder-mystery in reverse, tracing a marriage back in time to uncover the dark secret ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Swanson has published 15 books.

The next book by Peter Swanson, Kill Your Darlings, will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Peter Swanson, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, was published in February 2014.

Yes. Peter Swanson has 1 series.
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