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Already optioned for film, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is Peter Swanson’s electrifying tale of romantic noir, with shades of Hitchcock and reminiscent of the classic movie Body Heat. It is the story of a man swept into a vortex of irresistible passion and murder when an old love...

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 vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and...

לתפוס רוצח זה מסוכן – בעיקר אם הוא גר בבית הסמוך. הני ובעלה לויד מתחילים חיים חדשים ושקטים בבית יפה באחד מפרוורי בוסטון. הני היא אומנית הדפסים בעלת היסטוריה של...

Londres-Boston, vol de nuit. Ted Severson rencontre la superbe et mystérieuse Lily Kintner. Ils bavardent, boivent des cocktails, et voilà que peu à peu se déclenche un jeu de la vérité au cours duquel, un détail après l'autre, Ted se dévoile à l'oreille bienveillante de Lily. Il lui avoue l'échec de son couple : sa femme, Miranda, le trompe. Il en vient même à confier qu'il la tuerait bien. Et que ce ne serait finalement que justice. Or Lily déclare le plus sérieusement du monde qu'elle est prête à l'aider. Après tout, des tas de gens méritent de mourir, pour toutes sortes de raisons.

Neuf personnes, sans aucun lien apparent entre elles, reçoivent simultanément une liste de neuf noms, dont le leur. Une simple liste, sans la moindre explication. Certains y voient une mauvaise blague, d'autre une erreur, en tout cas rien de vraiment digne d'intérêt. Mais lorsque deux d'entre eux sont retrouvés mort, un terrifiant compte à rebours s'enclenche. De nouveaux meurtres s'enchaînent mais aucun rapport entre ces neuf individus ne se dessine. Jessica Winslow, agent du FBI, est bien décidée à tirer tout cela au clair, d'autant que son nom figure également sur la liste.

Libraire spécialisé en littérature policière, Malcolm reçoit la visite surprise du FBI. L'agent Gwen Mulvey sollicite son avis sur deux affaires étranges : une série de meurtres tout droit sortie d'un roman d'Agatha Christie et un "accident" rappelant un livre de James M. Cain. Or Malcolm, quinze ans plus tôt, a publié sur son blog une liste intitulée "Huit crimes parfaits", où figuraient ces deux intrigues. Serait-il possible qu'un tueur s'en inspire aujourd'hui ?

What if your college sweetheart, the girl of your dreams, suddenly disappeared? Twenty years later she's back, she's in trouble and she says you are the only one who can help her.

A devious tale of psychological suspense so irresistible that it prompts Entertainment Weekly to ask, “Is The Kind Worth Killing the next Gone Girl?” From one of the hottest new thriller writers, Peter Swanson, a name you may not know yet (but soon will), this is his breakout novel in the...

""Fiendish good fun."" —Anthony Horowitz 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...

When Hen and Lloyd move into their new house in West Dartford, Mass., they're relieved to meet, at their first block party, the only other seemingly childless couple in their neighbourhood, Matthew and Mira Dolamore. Turns out they live in the Dutch Colonial immediately next door. When they're invited over for dinner, however, things take a sinister turn when Hen thinks she sees something suspicious in Matthew's study.

The exceptionally twisty - and twisted - new thriller from the author of Rules for Perfect Murders. After a whirlwind, fairytale romance, Abigail Baskin marries freshly minted Silicon Valley millionaire Bruce Lamb. For their honeymoon, he whisks her away to an exclusive retreat at a friend's resort off the Maine coast on Heart Pond Island. But once there, Abigail's perfect new life threatens to crash down around her as she recognises one of their fellow guests as the good looking, charismatic stranger who weeks earlier had seduced her at her own bachelorette party....

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 highly unusual circumstances. Nine strangers...

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 she’d fall in love with a millionaire. Then she...

“A dazzlingly clever murder mystery, told backwards, asking the question: why would this loving wife murder her husband?”—Gillian McAllister, New York Times bestselling author of Famous Last Words and Wrong Place Wrong Time From the New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth...

""What a killer read! A Talent For Murder is the thrilling tale of a woman who suspects her husband is a serial killer. As the bodies stack up, so does the paranoid tension until I was feverishly turning pages in the dark, desperate to know what happens next. A fast, exciting read with twist...

“Delicious…I defy you to stop reading The Christmas Guest once you begin.” — New York Times Book Review New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson pens a spectacularly spine-chilling novella in which an American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays...

“The inventive Mr. Swanson never lets the willing reader down. With The Kind Worth Saving, he surpasses his own high standard.” — Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson, a private eye starts to follow a possibly...

Was, wenn die Wahrheit deine furchtbarsten Ängste übertrifft?

Das Leben hat Kate Priddy gelehrt, dass man stets mit dem Schlimmsten rechnen muss. Um die Albträume, die sie seit Jahren verfolgen, endlich hinter sich zu lassen, stimmt sie einem Wohnungstausch mit ihrem Cousin Corbin zu: Sie wird seine Wohnung in Boston beziehen, er ihr Apartment in London übernehmen. Am Tag ihrer Ankunft jedoch wird die junge Frau aus der Nachbarwohnung ermordet aufgefunden. Corbin behauptet, Audrey kaum gekannt zu haben - aber warum besitzt er dann einen Wohnungsschlüssel von ihr? Auch Kates neuer Nachbar Alan scheint irgendetwas zu verbergen. Ohne es zu ahnen, schwebt Kate bald schon selbst in Lebensgefahr. Doch wem kann sie überhaupt trauen?

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 Highsmith. Harry Ackerson has always...

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 her new neighbor could lead them both to murder...