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Aug 18, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Michele Hewitson |Fiona McFarlane |Peter Swanson |Louise Ward
Photos / SuppliedHighway 13by Fiona McFarlane From a window in a house in the Australian suburbs, a woman called Eva watches from her wheelchair the demolition of a house on her street. It is known as the Biga House. A journalist arrives. She had interviewed Eva five years ago, for a book she wrote on the Australian serial killer Paul Biga, who had lived in that house. She had turned up to talk to Eva just after the arrest.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Peter Swanson
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
bookreporter.com | Peter Swanson
Peter Swanson is one of my favorite writers working today. With the release of his latest novel, A TALENT FOR MURDER, I am pleased to announce that not only has Swanson hit it out of the park again, he has produced a story that both amazed and confounded me. The opening chapter is told from the point of view of Josie, an attendee at a teacher’s conference who has an open marriage and actively seeks out a male partner for sex.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
booksofmyheart.net | Peter Swanson
Review copy was received from Publisher. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.
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May 17, 2024 | 
shotsmag.co.uk | Peter Swanson
In a word, Swanson’s latest novel can be summarised as ‘extraordinary’. And akin to his previous works, A Talent for Murder is a love letter to readers of literary crime fiction, for there are affectionate nods and winks toward the conventions of the genre.
Swanson’s talent of weaving such engaging tales lies at his ability of taking a crime fiction cliché or a convention and turning it on its head; making you question the darkness [or horror] of human nature as well as its entwined beauty.
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May 16, 2024 | 
bibliosurf.com | Peter Swanson
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.
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May 10, 2024 | 
charlestonlivingmag.com | Courtney Webb |Elizabeth Gilbert |Alice Hoffman |Peter Swanson
It's that time again, folks. Time for sun, sand and bare feet (if you're lucky), as the hot days of another sweltering summer head in to stay all over our beautiful Carolinas. We're superior to most in making the best out of a scorcher but it's never too late to add a book to that beach, lake or pool bag to help you beat the heat. In the tradition of both old and new, here are a few books by those tried and true as well as a new kid on the block on the literary scene. Enjoy.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Peter Swanson
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 Perfect Murders. Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she’d likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with her solo existence, stimulated by her job as an archival librarian, constantly surrounded by thought-provoking ideas and the books she loved.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | David Ignatius |Peter Swanson |Abigail Dean |C. Harris
David Ignatius. Norton, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-3240-5091-9Journalist and novelist Ignatius (The Paladin) delivers an engrossing, character-driven spy thriller about space warfare. In 1995, 24-year-old Russian scientist Ivan Volkov accepts a scholarship in astronomy at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. After solving a notoriously tricky problem proposed by a 17th-century astronomer, Ivan is taken under the wing of professor Cao Lin, who convinces him to study satellites.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
bookreporter.com | Peter Swanson
This wonderful new novella from Peter Swanson meets the needs of both Halloween and Christmas. Despite the holiday setting, THE CHRISTMAS GUEST involves much darker subject matter and is purely a psychological thriller from start to finish. Ashley Smith, an American art student living in London, opens the tale as the primary figure. We experience the Christmas of her junior year through her recollections and her diary entries.
